Time are tough and the stress of the economic doom and gloom weighs heavily on the minds of many American families.
So why should you still take your family on vacation?
Here's some food for thought:
Researchers from the State University of New York at Oswego conducted a survey of more than 12,000 men ages 35 to 57 who had participated in a large heart disease prevention trial. The results, presented last March at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Savannah, suggest that men who take vacations every year reduce their overall risk of death by about 20 percent, and their risk of death from heart disease by as much as 30 percent.
To their surprise, the researchers discovered that some of the men surveyed didn't take any vacation time over the five years surveyed. But instead of being rewarded for their dedication to the job, they suffered the highest overall death rate and highest incidence of heart disease of any of the participants.
"We concluded that skipping vacations could actually be dangerous to your health," said Brooks Gump, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at Oswego and one of the study's co-authors. "Vacations have a protective effect because they help you reduce your load of stress, or at least allow you to take a break from the everyday stressors of the workplace."
Improve your mental health
A study by Wisconsin Medical Journal found that women who took frequent vacations were less likely to become depressed, tense, or tired. Women who rarely took vacations were likelier to have stress at home and sleep less.
Spending quality time with your family during a vacation, creates memories that you will cherish forever and it gives you something to reflect on many years from now.
Planning future vacations gives you something to look forward to.
So, now that I have you convinced that taking a vacation is a priority, you want to know how you can afford it, right?
Okay, here's the scoop. Depending on where you are traveling to, there may be a number of different ways to travel on the cheap, if you are willing to do a little research.
For example, if you are traveling to Orlando, Fl. you can save quite a bit of money with Timeshares.
One option is to book your stay through a timeshare resort. You will either end up staying at the timeshare resort or one of their affiliate hotels. If you agree to take a 90 minute tour of the resort property, you can save a bundle on your lodging expense.
You can also tour another resort in the area (yes, there are many of them) to get discounted tickets to the area theme parks. Yes, Disney, Universal and Seaworld, to name a few.
Some of these resorts even offer cash incentives.
If you can give up a couple of hours, it will very likely save you several hundred dollars. You might even discover that buying a timeshare, will allow you to travel to more places, more often and will likely make taking a family vacation a lot more enjoyable.
For more info check out http://www.tour4tickets.com
~C~
So why should you still take your family on vacation?
Here's some food for thought:
Researchers from the State University of New York at Oswego conducted a survey of more than 12,000 men ages 35 to 57 who had participated in a large heart disease prevention trial. The results, presented last March at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Savannah, suggest that men who take vacations every year reduce their overall risk of death by about 20 percent, and their risk of death from heart disease by as much as 30 percent.
To their surprise, the researchers discovered that some of the men surveyed didn't take any vacation time over the five years surveyed. But instead of being rewarded for their dedication to the job, they suffered the highest overall death rate and highest incidence of heart disease of any of the participants.
"We concluded that skipping vacations could actually be dangerous to your health," said Brooks Gump, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at Oswego and one of the study's co-authors. "Vacations have a protective effect because they help you reduce your load of stress, or at least allow you to take a break from the everyday stressors of the workplace."
Improve your mental health
A study by Wisconsin Medical Journal found that women who took frequent vacations were less likely to become depressed, tense, or tired. Women who rarely took vacations were likelier to have stress at home and sleep less.
Spending quality time with your family during a vacation, creates memories that you will cherish forever and it gives you something to reflect on many years from now.
Planning future vacations gives you something to look forward to.
So, now that I have you convinced that taking a vacation is a priority, you want to know how you can afford it, right?
Okay, here's the scoop. Depending on where you are traveling to, there may be a number of different ways to travel on the cheap, if you are willing to do a little research.
For example, if you are traveling to Orlando, Fl. you can save quite a bit of money with Timeshares.
One option is to book your stay through a timeshare resort. You will either end up staying at the timeshare resort or one of their affiliate hotels. If you agree to take a 90 minute tour of the resort property, you can save a bundle on your lodging expense.
You can also tour another resort in the area (yes, there are many of them) to get discounted tickets to the area theme parks. Yes, Disney, Universal and Seaworld, to name a few.
Some of these resorts even offer cash incentives.
If you can give up a couple of hours, it will very likely save you several hundred dollars. You might even discover that buying a timeshare, will allow you to travel to more places, more often and will likely make taking a family vacation a lot more enjoyable.
For more info check out http://www.tour4tickets.com
~C~
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