Surprising Ways Your Commute May Affect Your Health

Monday, June 18, 2012 How Your Long Commute Affects Sleep, Exercise, Weight, Stress And More Got a long commute to the office? A new study shows what exactly you're sacrificing to get to work. Brown University researchers found that spending an hour every day commuting (say, a half-hour commute there and back) means that the average person gets 30.6 percent less time for sleep, 16.1 percent less time for exercise, 5.8 percent less time to eat with the family and 4.1 percent less time to prepare food -- all healthy behaviors. 11 Sugary Beverages With More Calories Than Cola Mindfulness Meditation Linked With Positive Brain Changes Who's Happier: Morning People Or Night Owls? The Cities With The Most Gyms And Fitness Centers BLOG POSTS Kathy Freston: 3 Reasons Your Diet Isn't Working Losing weight may have been hard thus far, but it doesn't have to be. Let's look at three of the reasons your diet has probably not been working, and then I'll show you how to change things up. Jeffrey Rubin, Ph.D.: Want To Transform Your Day? Stop And Smell The Roses Despite massive upheavals and not a lot of good news -- financial terror, vast corruption, and global and environmental disaster -- the world is still an infinitely magnificent place. Mark Hyman, MD: Recipes Galore... The Path To A Healthy Life In my work as a functional medicine doctor, I often have patients ask me how they will achieve their health goals with cravings for the foods they have always loved. Shannon Kellogg: Are You A Perfectionist? 3 Changes You Can Make Today You may see your perfectionism as a motivator that propels you to do your best. But it's impossible to feel fulfilled when nothing ever feels good enough.

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