{"id":670,"date":"2010-02-22T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T00:54:44","slug":"yes-you-can-die-of-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Yes, you can die of boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35328113\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">study of 7,000 London civil servants<\/a> *yawn* has found out that one *yawn*\u00c2\u00a0can die of boredom. You can&#8217;t actually die of boredom, but boredom leads to less motivation which can lead to depression, leading to heart problems leading to death&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Someone who is bored may not be motivated to eat well, exercise, and have a heart-healthy lifestyle. That may make them more likely to have a cardiovascular event,&#8221; said Dr. Christopher Cannon, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University and spokesman for the American College of Cardiology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He also said if people&#8217;s boredom was ultimately linked to depression, it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if they were more susceptible to heart attacks; depression has long been recognized as a risk factor for heart disease. Cannon also said it was possible that when people are bored, dangerous hormones are released in the body that stress the heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/boring-office-300x225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-671\" title=\"boring-office-300x225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/boring-office-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study of 7,000 London civil servants *yawn* has found out that one *yawn*\u00c2\u00a0can die of boredom. You can&#8217;t actually die of boredom, but boredom leads to less motivation which can lead to depression, leading to heart problems leading to death&#8230; &#8220;Someone who is bored may not be motivated to eat well, exercise, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}