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Whether we get too much, too little, or just enough, sleep impacts our body in a variety of ways, some for the better, some for the worse. Did you know: …Too much sleep prematurely ages the brain? …Staying up too late increases the body’s propensity for weight gain? …Growth in infants bears a critical relationship [...]
Yet another high-powered successful woman telling us to get more sleep. The New York Times interviewed Amy Gutmann, President of University of Pennsylvania last Sunday for the weekly “Corner Office” column that appears in the Business Section each Sunday. Read her entire interview, “Welcoming the Wild Ideas of the Week” after this snippet: Q. I’m [...]
In a recent post about yoga and sleep, we featured an article from Yoga Journal in which the author encourages readers to institute a bedtime yoga practice. She also writes about creating a “sleep sanctuary” and collecting a handful of “sleep rituals.” She mentions a few options, including writing down nagging thoughts before you lay [...]
Did you know that sleep debt among Americans is a steadily climbing epidemic? Not only do we get too little sleep, but chronic sleep deprivation alters metabolic regulation, which makes us crave carbohydrate- rich food and, consequently, gain weight. This is one of the intriguing correlations between sleep loss and human functioning explored on NPR’s [...]
