Can Your Job Affect Your Health?

We all have occasional bad days at work but can your job actually affect your health? Did you ever think that waking up at 3 a.m. or that afternoon headache could be caused by work?

Too many Americans are trapped in toxic jobs, a problem employers and employees need to take more seriously. Jeffrey Pfeffer, an organizational behavior professor at Stanford who wrote the book Dying for a Paycheck, foundthrough his research that poor management in U.S. companies accounted for up to 8 percent of annual health costs...

Think about some of the symptoms that may be related to job stress:

• Headaches
• Muscle aches
• Changes in appetite
• Lack of energy
• Depression

Changing jobs may sound like the only solution, but there are other things you can do at-work like taking breaks and refraining from negative thinking. See more at www.huffpost.com