Workplace Fitness: The top 10 healthiest jobs

A healthy workplace is a complicated machine that encompasses many things, but some jobs lend themselves naturally to healthier environments. Which ones? Maybe you're already in one, or maybe you're in the market for a new job and you'd like to be in one. According to a survey via eDiets by Monster.com the following list includes the top 10 healthiest jobs out there (excluding professional sports):

1) Activity Specialist
2) Chiropractor
3) Choreographer
4) Florist
5) Massage Therapist
6) Nutritionist
7) Personal Trainer
8) Professor
9) Running Coach
10) Yoga Instructor

There's really no info on exactly what makes each of these jobs so healthy, other than the general idea that they all promote a balanced wholesome workplace environment. But I can guess at why, and it's interesting that all the professions are so different.Being a personal trainer or a yoga instructor is obviously healthy on a physical level because they work out for a living, while a florist is more about spiritual and mental health because they are surrounded by nature, beauty, and even some positive aromatherapy (I used to have a friend who had a small floral business in her basement and her entire house smelled like roses!). Two completely different angles on the idea of "healthy work environment," but both very true. I wonder what we can tell about ourselves based on which of the healthiest professions appeal the most to us? And the least?

Unfortunately we can't all work in one of those 10 jobs, but some of your work environment is still under your control. You spend a great deal of your waking life at work, so it's worthwhile to make what changes you can for the better. Reducing stress, getting regular physical activity, and eating right all have huge impacts, as does how you set up your personal space at work. And give yourself an attitude adjustment if you need one, making a point to be positive instead of negative, and by surrounding yourself with people who do the same.

And if your job is just inherently unhealthy, either physically or mentally, I say speak up or move on! Life is too short to work in a miserable situation and/or to let your job drag your whole life experience into the mud.