Day after Super Bowl, 16 million stay home on 'Super Sick Day'
Ever notice your workload piling up the day after the Super Bowl?
Wonder where your coworkers are?
Turns out, about 16 million of them call in sick on what is known as "Super Sick Day," a day notoriously referred to as the day after Super Bowl Sunday. But it's not a day that is celebrated.
People are prone to "Super Sick Day" if they experience chronic acid reflux. The health impact of the Super Bowl can turn painful.
Chronic acid reflux is a major symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and about 1 in 5 Americans suffer from GERD, and employees with GERD may experience 41 percent more sick leave days than others.
In 2016, the Workforce Institute suggested 1 in 10 U.S. workers — about 16.5 million employed adults — may have missed work the day after last year's big game. And Cliff Black, an Anniston physician, has noticed this not only after the Super Bowl, but also after New Year's Eve, and even following the BCS National Championship Game.
"I notice in my practice that over the years, anecdotally, people come in to see us with reflux-type issues around that time," Black said, specifically referring to the time after the Super Bowl. It's an interesting phenomenon.
"The big problem with the Super Bowl is you have an overindulgence in food and alcohol, and those can be triggers for those who have reflux disease or heartburn. We refer to that as GERD, and a lot of times when you overindulge like that, you see the full manifestation of the worst clinical response in these patients. A lot of these people can't recuperate by Monday."
Eating the right way, and staying hydrated, is a key way to getting through the day, said Chase Holmberg, owner of BodyTrac Health and Fitness Montgomery, and co-owner of CrossFit 2L2Q. Eating healthy "the bad way" is easy through making hamburgers with turkey, 100 percent ground beef, bison or venison. And with it? Ditch the bun, he says, for a pile of spinach topped with onions and tomatoes.
Or, he suggests making thin crust pizzas with whole grain pizza crusts, light olive oil and a lot of vegetables.
Not only is it healthy, but it will not keep you up at night.
"They don't get enough sleep," Black said of those suffering from GERD. "They certainly don't feel well, and if you have an event like the Super Bowl, it's kind of like the 'perfect storm' where there's a lot of food and alcohol involved. It makes it that much worse."
People who suffer from chronic acid reflux should not eat past 5 p.m. or 6 p.m., and certainly not within three to four hours of going to bed.
"For people like that, there's the obvious of needing to pace yourself and not really drink as much as you do," Black said. "Cut back on the amount of food. But there's also the wake-up call and thinking, 'I do this every Super Bowl.' They're probably suffering from reflux or GERD. It's a real problem. This is a miserable condition.
"Things like the Super Bowl are like a wake-up call. If you can't celebrate the night, your disease is the tail wagging the dog. It's limiting how fun your life is, and it's certainly impacting your work."
What is GERD?A chronic digestive disease. GERD occurs when stomach acid or, occasionally, stomach content, flows back into your food pipe (esophagus). The backwash (reflux) irritates the lining of your esophagus and causes GERD.
Super Bowl, the healthy wayThe morning of:
1. Exercise. Boost your metabolism for the long day of food consumption ahead.
2. Drink water.
3. Eat normal healthy meals all day. Don't starve yourself before the game. Eating normal size healthy portions throughout the day will allow you to make better decisions come game time.
During the game:
Let's be honest – we don't all watch every play of the game, so we turn to food out of boredom. Set up multiple games to keep yourself and guests occupied, such as horeshoes, cornhole or any other favorites. Plus, you will burn calories instead of sitting in a recliner.
If going out:
1. Drink water. Staying hydrated will keep you feeling better and help get rid of unwanted waste your body doesn't need.
2. Eat before you leave or bring your own food, enough to get you through half of the game and then you can have some "bad" food.
3. Plan what time you will leave. Just "hanging around" after the game may cause you to eat leftovers you may not have necessarily needed.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/02/03/day-after-super-bowl-16-million-stay-home-super-sick-day/97354572/
Comment: Or you can turn to Dr. Eisenstein's Betten-Aid natural good tasting simple probiotics with digestive enzymes. Betten aid has been responsible for ruining many plans to ditch work and school because of acid reflux stomach aches and pains.
Wonder where your coworkers are?
Turns out, about 16 million of them call in sick on what is known as "Super Sick Day," a day notoriously referred to as the day after Super Bowl Sunday. But it's not a day that is celebrated.
People are prone to "Super Sick Day" if they experience chronic acid reflux. The health impact of the Super Bowl can turn painful.
Chronic acid reflux is a major symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and about 1 in 5 Americans suffer from GERD, and employees with GERD may experience 41 percent more sick leave days than others.
In 2016, the Workforce Institute suggested 1 in 10 U.S. workers — about 16.5 million employed adults — may have missed work the day after last year's big game. And Cliff Black, an Anniston physician, has noticed this not only after the Super Bowl, but also after New Year's Eve, and even following the BCS National Championship Game.
"I notice in my practice that over the years, anecdotally, people come in to see us with reflux-type issues around that time," Black said, specifically referring to the time after the Super Bowl. It's an interesting phenomenon.
"The big problem with the Super Bowl is you have an overindulgence in food and alcohol, and those can be triggers for those who have reflux disease or heartburn. We refer to that as GERD, and a lot of times when you overindulge like that, you see the full manifestation of the worst clinical response in these patients. A lot of these people can't recuperate by Monday."
Eating the right way, and staying hydrated, is a key way to getting through the day, said Chase Holmberg, owner of BodyTrac Health and Fitness Montgomery, and co-owner of CrossFit 2L2Q. Eating healthy "the bad way" is easy through making hamburgers with turkey, 100 percent ground beef, bison or venison. And with it? Ditch the bun, he says, for a pile of spinach topped with onions and tomatoes.
Or, he suggests making thin crust pizzas with whole grain pizza crusts, light olive oil and a lot of vegetables.
Not only is it healthy, but it will not keep you up at night.
"They don't get enough sleep," Black said of those suffering from GERD. "They certainly don't feel well, and if you have an event like the Super Bowl, it's kind of like the 'perfect storm' where there's a lot of food and alcohol involved. It makes it that much worse."
People who suffer from chronic acid reflux should not eat past 5 p.m. or 6 p.m., and certainly not within three to four hours of going to bed.
"For people like that, there's the obvious of needing to pace yourself and not really drink as much as you do," Black said. "Cut back on the amount of food. But there's also the wake-up call and thinking, 'I do this every Super Bowl.' They're probably suffering from reflux or GERD. It's a real problem. This is a miserable condition.
"Things like the Super Bowl are like a wake-up call. If you can't celebrate the night, your disease is the tail wagging the dog. It's limiting how fun your life is, and it's certainly impacting your work."
What is GERD?A chronic digestive disease. GERD occurs when stomach acid or, occasionally, stomach content, flows back into your food pipe (esophagus). The backwash (reflux) irritates the lining of your esophagus and causes GERD.
Super Bowl, the healthy wayThe morning of:
1. Exercise. Boost your metabolism for the long day of food consumption ahead.
2. Drink water.
3. Eat normal healthy meals all day. Don't starve yourself before the game. Eating normal size healthy portions throughout the day will allow you to make better decisions come game time.
During the game:
Let's be honest – we don't all watch every play of the game, so we turn to food out of boredom. Set up multiple games to keep yourself and guests occupied, such as horeshoes, cornhole or any other favorites. Plus, you will burn calories instead of sitting in a recliner.
If going out:
1. Drink water. Staying hydrated will keep you feeling better and help get rid of unwanted waste your body doesn't need.
2. Eat before you leave or bring your own food, enough to get you through half of the game and then you can have some "bad" food.
3. Plan what time you will leave. Just "hanging around" after the game may cause you to eat leftovers you may not have necessarily needed.
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2017/02/03/day-after-super-bowl-16-million-stay-home-super-sick-day/97354572/
Comment: Or you can turn to Dr. Eisenstein's Betten-Aid natural good tasting simple probiotics with digestive enzymes. Betten aid has been responsible for ruining many plans to ditch work and school because of acid reflux stomach aches and pains.
