Stuck in traffic? Read a book, shop online, or maybe pray the rosary and remember to keep calm, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III suggested. | jovicyeeINQ
“Pray the rosary, read books, bring your documents … You have to be smart. Turn your cars, or buses or jeepneys into your mobile office. Do what needs to be done,” Duque said.He said cursing the traffic could just raise one’s blood pressure and lead to a heart attack.According to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, the number of cars using the roads in Metro Manila usually spike by up to 20 percent as Christmas approaches.
Increasing stress hormones in the body makes one fat, according to Dr. Nemencio Nicodemus, Pasoo vice president. A stressed person naturally tends to eat, he said.“What do you eat [while sitting in traffic]? Junk food or you drive through a fastfood [restaurant] just so you have the ‘energy,’’’ Nicodemus said. “So there is both a physical and hormonal reason as to why people gain weight when you are stuck in traffic.
NCDs cost the country P756 billion annually due to health-care expenses and lost earning capacity, a recent United Nations report found.Duque said that in the run-up to the holidays, it might be helpful if one could just “stay at home and do your transactions via electronic devices.”Earlier this year, President Duterte signed Republic Act No. 11165, or the Telecommuting Act, which allows employees to work in an alternative workplace on a voluntary basis.
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