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By scheduling your workouts earlier in the day, you’re more likely to experience the health and sleep-enhancing benefits of exercise without risking sleep disruption. nuttapong punna/Istockphoto 5.
With the new year comes a list of resolutions to get healthy and fit. Eating right and getting regular exercise are important, but nothing keeps you in better health than a good night's sleep.
The NSF's Sleep Awareness Week, now in its 26th year, is held every March to remind us that sleep is as essential to our health and well-being as air, food and water.
Sleep hygiene is a behavioral and environmental practice [2] developed in the late 1970s as a method to help people with mild to moderate insomnia. [2] Clinicians assess the sleep hygiene of people with insomnia and other conditions, such as depression, and offer recommendations based on the assessment.
Chronic sleep deprivation (less than 8 hours of sleep) is associated with an increase in body mass index (BMI) and obesity. In a study with 3000 patients, it was found that men and women who sleep less than 5 hours have elevated body mass index (BMI). In another study that followed about 70.000 women for 16 years, there was a significant ...
Reviews differentiate between having no sleep over a short-term period, such as one night ('sleep deprivation'), and having less than required sleep over a longer period ('sleep restriction'). Sleep deprivation was seen as more impactful in the short term, but sleep restriction had similar effects over a longer period.
Oatmeal is a good late-night snack because it contains melatonin, releases serotonin, doesn’t take long to digest and helps keep you full throughout the night. Getty Images
Sleep restriction in normal-weight subjects also showed an increase in activity of reward and food-sensitive areas of the brain when viewing unhealthy food, compared with viewing healthy food. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] This study shows a link between restricted sleep and susceptibility to food stimuli, which might increase the risk of overeating.