What Business Travel Can Do to Your Health

Traveling constantly can take a serious toll on your health. From lack of sleep, to dehydration and more, it's important to think about your health - even when you're on the go.

A recent study from FYI Living explores this topic, covering the negative effects of a stress, a poor diet and being sedentary during flights on the body.

"This study revealed a “U” shaped relationship between self-reported health, health risk factors and business travel. Employed persons seem to be healthier than their non-employed peers and had reduced mortality too. This “healthy worker” effect may be a reason for the finding that people who do not travel report poor health, are likely to be more obese and likely to have higher diastolic blood pressure than people who travel up to six nights in a month for business. However, this positive relation between health and business travel is not observed in the case of people who travel for more than two weeks per month. They are more likely to have poor health. A possible combination of job stress, long time spent in sedentary activity during travel and diet may be contributing to this phenomenon."

Whether it's a short flight to Mexico, or a longer leg to Europe or Asia, always make sure to drink plenty of water, sleep when you can, and walk around during the flight if possible.