How Traveling Can Promote Health and Wellness

A legal intern at Hach & Rose, LLP, Rachel Lader helps prepare cases for trial, summons, and complaints, as well as create informative blog articles for the law firm’s website. A juris doctor candidate at New York Law School, Rachel Lader enjoys traveling.

In addition to fun, excitement, and experience, traveling is also good for health and wellness. Several scientific research studies have discovered how traveling can be good for health.

1. Traveling reduces the risk of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases. This is what the collaborative study of the Global Commission on Aging and Transamerica Center for Retirement and the US Travel Association has found out. According to the research, women who vacationed at least twice a year have a lower risk of dying of heart attack or coronary disease compared with women who traveled every six years or less. Men who did not take annual vacations have 30 percent more likelihood of dying of heart disease.

2. Traveling is an effective stress reliever. The collaborative same study has found out that 89 percent of the respondents demonstrated significant relief from stress within two days of traveling. This finding is supported by a 2018 Austrian study that showed that travelers were less anxious, felt more rested, and were in better mood within three days of taking a vacation.

3. Traveling makes people happy and satisfied. This was found out by a Cornell University-led study, which revealed that traveling boosts happiness because travelers need not think about work. Travelers have shown signs of increased happiness and satisfaction from just planning a vacation.

Originally published at https://rachellader.blogspot.com.