Your mental health is not affected only by comfort and fun times during the holiday. Rather, scientific studies also show that they have very important benefits on the body. Therefore, people who abandon the leave may lack important health benefits, this is what recent studies, which linked obtaining regular leave, heart health, low risk of disorder, and also increasing the average life expectancy.
An analysis of 32 previous studies, published in the Journal of Psychology during the year 2025, explained that the direct effects on human health are more deep than what was previously believed, according to DW.
The results of a long -term study, spoke about by researcher Brooks Gamp, a professor of public health at the University of Cereakios, in his interview with the German newspaper Mirkor, followed the case of more than 12,000 people at risk of heart disease, who got a vacation every year over a period of nine years, the risk of death was about 20 percent less, and the risk of death due to heart disease is up to 30 percent.
In another study, Gamb and his colleagues found closely between the frequency of travel to vacation and a set of pathological conditions such as: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low level of HDL cholesterol, and high levels of triglycerides, which increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes.
During each additional leave, the risk of metabolic syndrome decreased by about 25 percent. Other researchers have also found links between benefiting from holidays, low level of physical complaints associated with tension, low levels of fatigue and depression, and increased contentment.
Studies indicate that short rest periods have a positive effect on health as well, and the vacation effect lasts for up to 45 days after returning from them.
The holidays also help compensate for a lack of sleep, which is associated with the high risk of obesity and diabetes, according to a study conducted in 2022 in the journal Nature Human Behavior. The researchers relied on the data collected from about 20,000 people, which showed that people, who were sleeping less than 7.5 hours per night, benefited from more hours when they traveled.
“By fully separating from work, you are regaining lost psychological resources such as energy, positive mood and emotions,” said Ryan Grant, a PhD at the University of Georgia, and the main author of the study on the effects of the leave. The holidays that include physical activity and social communication with family or friends are especially useful.
