Office can not be considered as a dangerous working environment according to law. Yet, you can get quite a few diseases while quietly working at your desk. So, what can be dangerous at your work place? Full story

According to Finnish scientists, working extra hours is linked to nervous disorders and may even lead to mental retardation. So the scientists urge workaholics to come to their senses. It is not that you have to sit around all day long, just make sure you don’t work yourself into Alzheimer’s disease. Full story

It’s only afternoon but you feel worn out. Afternoon is the time of yawns, heavy eyelids, sluggish thoughts and leady tiredness filling your whole body, right? Between 2 and 3 p.m., our concentration declines drastically, yet, it’s the time we are in the midst of workflow. We lose interest in everything, and it seems that nothing can make us work when afternoon comes. Of course, you can look for flexible hours. But what about people who can't enjoy that opportunity and have to work nine till five? Full story

How come office workers are prone to be overweight? It turns out, that the reason for this is more complicated that mere lack of movements. Glucose is the energy source for our brain cells. Blood glucose levels drop more significantly under heavy brainwork than under physical work. We feel hunger when we are short in glucose, as this way the organism tries to replenish glucose levels. Thus, when we spend a lot of time in front of our computer we tend to spend less calories, but eat more food, therefore we consume more than we spend. This is the main reason why mental work results in excess weight. Full story

Women who work the night shifts or work very late into the night at the office are often insomniac. How can you fight sleeping problems? Working at night is stressful for our body. We were biologically designed to be active during the day and rest at night. The way our body functions and the type of hormones it produces differ depending on whether we are asleep or awake. If your sleeping schedule is off track, it can disturb the normal sleep-awake cycle. The body becomes unable to function the way it is supposed to. That leads to insomnia and health problems. Here are some tips on how to mitigate effects of disturbed cycle. Full story

Physiologists and sociologists already found the gloomiest and the happiest days of the year (January, 21 and June, 20 respectively). Now they got down to the days of week. They finally figured out that the hardest day is Wednesday, not Monday as we all believe. Full story