Boost Your Energy At Work

Working at low energy levels make for grueling hours at work. More of the remaining energy are used in keeping the eyes open than on doing the work an employee is paid to do. A wise approach to diet and use of work-time can make wonders in keeping that energy level, and consequently one's productivity, on high marks.

IT IS rare for an office worker not to find himself or herself fighting the call to sleep while in the middle of a heap of paperwork. This usually occurs in the early afternoon when the morning meal has been exhausted, and the body still has to digest its lunch.

In fact, too much lunch can draw much of a person’s blood circulation in the stomach, leaving only enough for the brain to function with less. That makes thinking a bit laborious, and hounded by sleep.

Scientific studies however make some progress in helping you overcome these calls to slumber.

A study conducted in the Louisiana State University (published in Computers and Industrial Engineering) found out that... [READ MORE]

Published in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 4 April 2012.

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