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ABOUT TIME

12 MINS OF YOGA
Chanting style yoga for this
absurdly brief period of time
is enough to stop your body from
kicking up excessive inflammation,
found a paper in the journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology. It
also slashes stress levels, leaving
practitioners as calm as a millpond.

13 MINS TO DRINK
A CUP OF TEA

Men started to eat
mushrooms as medicine (as
well as food) more than
2,000 years ago, due to their
anti-inflammatory qualities

20 MINS TO GET
JAPANESE-LEVEL HEALTH
Take a few minutes to
cook and eat a 120g (4oz) serving of
mushrooms. People who did this saw
better performing gamma delta T cells
and decreases in inflammatory proteins,
found a paper in the Journal of the
American College of Nutrition.

Not only will making a
cuppa give you a stress-reducing
break from the grind, but those
minutes taken to savour have health
benefits. Green tea ups your number
of T-cells that suppress autoimmune
diseases, helping you to fight off bugs.

12 MINS TO TUNE
IN AND OUT

20 MINUTES TO DO SOMETHING
FOR SOMEONE ELSE

720 seconds of
upbeat tunes will increase
your happiness levels, found
researchers at the University of
Missouri. Note, it must be
upbeat, don't be afraid to go
pop, just playlist it as postmodern and you're all good.

5 MINS OF
BOOK IMBIBING
30 minutes of reading
for pleasure each week will
increase your feelings of life
satisfaction by up to 11%, found
research from the British
organisation Quick Reads. It also
found it will make you 28% less
likely to be depressed and
18% more likely to have high
self-esteem.

You don't need to formally volunteer but
putting someone else's needs ahead of yours is
vital for happiness. A survey by UnitedHealth
Group found 94% of volunteers said it improved
their mood, self esteem and happiness levels.
Wash up someone else's cup, help a mum with her
pram or share your casserole with your neighbour.

60

8 MINS TO
MUTE YOUR
FRENEMY
Banning the smartphone
from your bedroom is
the best way to improve
your mental wellbeing.
It improves sleep and
reduces anxiety. Do
everything you need to
on your phone before
you hit the bedroom.

Sex triggers the release of
dopamine, making it a
natural mood elevator,
with benefits that extend
into the next day

30 MINS LUNCHING WITH
OFFICE PALS
Go out for lunch with a colleague.
People who have different friends in the work
place are viewed as more helpful and tend
to perform better than those who stick to
themselves, found a paper at Ohio State
University. Having a workplace connection is the
best way to ensure work doesn't feel like torture
and adds value to your life when you're struggling.

60

19 MINS OF
BEDROOM ACTIVITY

60

A mere 19 minutes is the average
duration a British couple takes to go from start
to finish during the bedroom's most famous
and enjoyable act. Doing it is time well spent.
A paper in the Journal of Management
recently revealed having a regular and healthy
sex life increases employees' job satisfaction
and engagement in the office. B

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