A recent study seems to indicate that even lack of sleep increases the chances for diabetic conditions to worsen. The researchers applied quiet noise to volunteers to slightly disturb their sleep but not wake them up.
Researchers found when they monitored their reaction to insulin, a hormone that plays a key role in moving glucose-sugar- from the bloodstream into the tissue of the body where it is needed for energy.
The results revealed that young healthy subjects had become less sensitive to insulin. That is, they needed more insulin to dispose of the same amount of glucose. Reduced insulin sensitivity is a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes.
These findings show a clear role for slow-wave sleep to maintain normal glucose control. Researchers at the University of Chicago. where the research was con ducted, noted that overweight and senior subjects often suffer poor quality sleep. This makes them more likely towards diabetes.
In every way we can, whether turning down the lights as the sun goes down, to prepare our bodies for the coming sleep. Too much light, late at night, will not allow your body to then simply turn off when you go to bed. Do not have television in your bedroom; this causes your brain to be awake or expect to. Quiet reading in bed can help, as long as the reading is calming, filling your soul with restful thoughts. It is not wise to read a mystery novel.
For my children, Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book was perfect. Before all the foot weary salesmen had laid down their load, because their feet were so sore, and that is what the wonderful nighttime is for… good night. Sleep well!
Work 8 honest hours; sleep 8 full hours; have fun, eat well, love much 8 hours
WORK 8 HOURS
How happy we are in our work, and what can we do to be more productive, to become less a cog in the wheel, more oBur own person, improves our health. So work steady, stay co-operative, wise, keep up to date on matters related to your career, stay in contact with others, your peers, your mates. A healthy person is one with human contacts aplenty; those who we honestly care about, and who care about us. Give your career your all, but for it to happen well, before your day, you need to exhaust yourself so you are yawning by 10PM for your 8 hours sleep.
SLEEP 8 HOURS
Few of us nowadays get 8 hours sleep nightly. You must. Lights down past 7, out by 10. Science has found that getting 8 hours sleep creates enough healthy melatonin to get us through the day, and then through the next night, our bodies singing. Keep up your good work, work on your essential full 8 hours sleep; during the various re-organizing by the brain while you sleep, especially the happy memories that build in that crucial 8th hour of sleep. Much earlier in the day you needed to walk yourself, for miles outdoors, or to a full exhausted sweat on your exercise machine or walking.
HAVE 8 HOURS OF FUN
8 hours fun, perhaps less commute time, kids, errands, grocer to store to store. 8 hours of fun. Try to make eating part of the fun, everyone joins in, helps pick the darkest, freshest fruits and veggies at the market, joins in. No TV in bedrooms. Did we mention exercise? And that if you find you won’t be able to work a walk in today, then, when you arrive home, check out our auction for exercise machines.
You need to take control of your body, your soul and your mind. Walk the flab off, climb on some of the new gym for home, fully calibrated to have you work gently, then soon climbing, working, feeling stronger, gaining on the tiger, bringing on your seratonin feel good pushing through the blood in your brain.
You smile and sweat, and the doctors are right, it does allow us to feel the additive effects of healthy foods, Creatine, CLA and exercise on your gym. Walk if your area is safe, and the air fresh. Otherwise, make an auction bid on these amazing machines, and work yourself to health in the comfort and security of your own home with your favorite music on, some travel tv. Not just one great day, but make your workout your daily habit. Look in at our new Home Gym EssentialsCategory, amazing progress to keep us healthy, happy and wise.
Eight Hours Sleep nightly seems perfect for us: more or less is deadly.
We have discussed how evidence shows that teens children and adults are sleep deprived these days, causing them to not retain the positive memories the final, eighth hour of sleep can give us. But recent research confirms that’s it. Then it`s time to get up.
In a 22 year year study of more than 21,000 adults, Finnish researchers found that participants who habitually slept less than seven hours or more than eight hours were more likely to die during the study period.
The findings, in the journal Sleep, add to evidence linking sleep habits to overall health. While it’s not fully clear why both “long sleepers`and `short sleepers`had a higher death risk, the reasons are likely diverse, the study`s lead author to Reuters Health. Ì think there are many subgroups in both short and long sleepers and the reasons a different in them“, said Dr. Christer Hublin of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health.
Many factors may come into this, including insomnia, those who simply need more or less sleep, depression, but so far the only clear notice is that those who sleep outside of that seemingly perfect eight hours a night put themselves at jeopardy of a shortened life. More on this as new developes.
But if I don`t get to bed soon I am not going to get my 8 hours sleep, and you know how much a bear I am in the morning when, like Goldilocks, my sleep wasn`t juuuust right. Not 7 hours, not 9 hours. 8 hours. Perfect.
Teens get an hour less sleep a night than you did 30 years ago; are sleep deprived of their healing positive dreams.
Entitled “Why Teens Are Gloomy?, an article in the Globe and Mail states that”it has been documented in major studies that U.S children, from elementary school through high school, get about an hour less sleep a night than they did 30 years ago, writes Po Bronson in New York Magazine. During sleep, the brain shifts what it learned that day to more efficient storage regions of the brain, according to Matthew Walker of he University of California, Berkley. Each stage of sleep plays a role in capturing memories. In students learning foreign languages, the vocabulary is synthesized by the hippocampus early in the night during “slow -wave sleep.” The motor skills of enunciation are processed during stage 2 non-REM sleep, and the auditory memories are encoded across all stages.
Memories that are emotionally laden get processed during REM sleep, the negative first. Not enough sleep, no pleasant memory storage, only negative.
The more you learned that day, the more you need to sleep that final eighth hour that night.
Negative emotional stimuli get processed by the amygdala; Positive or neutral memories by the hippocampus. Sleep deprivation hits the hippocampus harder than the amygdala. The result is that sleep-deprived people, and more so children and teens, fail to recall pleasant memories yet recall gloomy memories just fine.
That says that the first 6 hours sleep get all your other day’s learning processed, and then one hours sleep each for the negative deep REM emotions, one hour gets them all into their compartments.
And now, as you, your child or your teen gets ready for your positive crucial final hours happy memories processing, happy events and source of future happy memories, and … the alarm goes off, or the missus, or the mister, or the dawg, or your bladder. So you lay awake, shuddering at all those bad worries you have just processed, and until now you didn’t, nor did I, realize that crucial eighth hours of sleep could have given you all of yesterdays successes.
What successes? Well, imagine you handled some bold action and spoke of your triumph, but you didn’t get your full sleep, you are groggy, feel somehow down…You did sleep 7 hours, so you’ve already made a hard copy of the trip you made on the stairs as you went to make your talk and how everyone including Peggy Sue laughed at you. That will come in and out out your mind all day, you will wince, try to get over it…However, Peggy Sue runs up to you, squeezes your arm, says honey your speech was wonderful. You say what? I tripped going up to the stage? Oh, that. Well, you made such a funny remark, we all laughed with you, and then when you pulled yourself together, and began to talk, you came a very different man from the boy who had just triped; don’t you remember your stirring, inspirational words, the interupted applause you got?
Oh yeah. Tell me again, it’s totally slipped my mind. I just keep coming back to slipping.I farted when I fell, didn’t I?
Dr. Franklin usually got his full eight hours sleep, behind the coal bin as a lad, after his evening beating. America’s true self made Mr CinderFella. Lucky America. Lucky world. Good night. Sleep well, savour, now we know, you should be waking up smiling, unless you did not do one positive thing the previous day, hug a grandchild, shake hands with a lawyer, give a coin to a true pauper. Don’t beat the lad behind the coal bin. It could be one of us.
Smile, pat him on the head, teach him to fish. Or computers. Can you just imagine Benjamin Franklin around a computer? He would be aquiver with excitement at what his electric rods had evolved to. Dr. Franklin said it well, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a fellow healthy, wealthy and wise. You know when you gotta get up, pup So hit the sack, Jack, eight hours before that. We live by the sun, hon; sleep by the moon, yon slaggard buffoon.
And, in the ironies of life, the more essential nutrients we consume, and the more exercise regimens we put ourselves through, at a gentle pace, the more we keep our blood pumping and our heart pounding steadily and live healthily to old ages.
Now, today, you can monitor yourself, read your biofeedback as you pratice meditating or deep breathing, which cause you to become closer to whom you are inside you, lungs pumping, heart pounding, sweat forming. Under the layers and cellulite. So, check out our new Pages Home Gym Essentials, and Healthy Supplements with their talks about how many cm’s of essential greens we need a day, fatty plant and fish oils and omegas, alphas, you know the lectures we hear but don’t quite meet. Our internal organs, as well as our ego-driven skin tone worries us more. And it is natural oils and soaps you need and they are here.
As well, to turn flab into muscle tone, our new Pages Home Gym Essentials and Healthy Supplements shows just how good becoming healthy and filled with self joy as you lose the gut, tone up, look good. These are your dream team Gym and healthy supp’s centers, so test and see. Please let us know: if you can pick one or all of these, at these bids, enjoy!
And so to bed. Dr. Franklin says it will all end well in the end. I believe him.
If you are tossing and turning at 3 AM, you are reducing the quality and length of your life.
Your ability to perform or feel at your best in the morning and through the day rquires that you had 8 hours of blissful sleep. If you are not getting your 8 hours ZZ`s, and if you carry that from day to day you are shortening your life, and the quality of your life. Researchers at the University of California at San diego monitored 135 healthy men overnight and then collected and analzyed their blood. The results show that interrupted sleep may harm your heart by increasing clot-promoting proteins. Such men may have a higher risk of heart attack, says Joel Dimsdale, M.D., the lead author. To allow a deeper sleep, limit the carbs you eat before bedtime, or your blood-sugar and insulin levels will drop dramatically at night, at which point your body will detect the changes, and then awakens to seek more food.
Once again, you did it to yourself, and now your body feels the need to eat, which cuts into your sleep and creating melatonin levels for tomorrow, leaving you groggy, cranky, and distracted. Eat healthy in the morning, have your carbs cereal with a pail of healthy foods in the morning. But cut it off by evening, you`ve had your nutrients and liquids by then, Ben. You too, gwen.
Turn the lights down after 7-8, lights out by 10, no TV in your bedroom, you need 8 hours of sleep, Jeep. Not a creature stirs in your house, not even your mouse.
Melatonin, created by sleep and chewing gum, is a powerful antioxidant, sleep aid, bone builder
Melatonin may guard your mouth against gum disease. And new studies show that more saliva means higher oral melatonin levels: Chew sugarless gum to stimulate saliva: swallow your melatonin, don’t spit. This in Men’s Health from a study in the Journal of Periodontology. Researchers studied 37 people, those with the highest levels of the sleep hormone melatonin suffered 54% less gum disease than those with the least. Melatonin may operate like an antioxidant to battle both bacteria and inflammation in gum tissue, while enhancing new bone formation in the jaw, says Susan Karabin, D.D.S., president-elect of the American Academy of Periodontology.
<!–[if !supportLists]–>·<!–[endif]–>Several sugarless gums are on the market that also claim to have compounds akin to tooth enamel to fill in fragile cracks in teeth. Whether or not that claim is true, this research says chew sugarless gum to raise your fragile body’s melatonin levels.
Many studies indicate there is no one magic pill, although if you need help getting back into your natural sleep pattern of eight hours sleep, your 10 to 6 dreamland promise that enables you to awaken a charged tiger, not a trembly rag doll. Saying that, taking Melatonin tablets will put you back into that pattern, sold at most health stores. So, yes if you need them to re start your sleep routine, buy Melatonin Pills, which aid sleep, until you work up your own level naturally, by getting 8 hours sleep a night. Say goodnight to the 3 am shutdown of the bar. Say good morning, like my banty rooster when I was a boy, cock a doodle doo at the sunrise. Natural foods, regular exercise go with that, learning to deal with the inevitable stresses of lives, go with the flow and stay steady to your dreams, your daily routines, your early morning breakfast, your gym machine workout, eat a plum, sweat on the machine, keep loose, in your zone, your own person, the boss of you…a piece of grill medium rare meat with some yams and peppers- priceless.
Today’s paper shows the girl blowing cute little bubbles, the fellow blows one huge one that pops all over her. She cursing, he saying so you’re saying bigger is not always better? No, actually, it is not. So move your bones, Jones, use your brain, Jane, get out for a walk, Jock, get on your gym machine, Gene, chew your gum, Chum, take your Melatonin, Conan, till you’re back on track, Jack, eat your dark veggie, Reggie, black plums and berries, Gerri, grill us a thrill, Bill….. Mostly, love, live, smile. we will never walk this way again.
Best wishes. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team
Sleep, or the lack of it, makes us twice as likely to die early of a heart attack.
British researchers studied 10,000 government workers for 17 years. They found that those who cut their hours of sleep from 7 hours nightly to 5 or less increased risk of death from all causes and more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular death. The findings highlight pressures of modern living, says
University of
Warwick’s medical school professor Francesco Cappuccio of cardiovascular medicine. A third of the U.K. and over 40% of the U.S. population are sleeping less than 5 hours a night. Previous research has shown the potential health risks of not enough sleep, which also links sleep deprivation with mortality rates. Ironically other studies have shown that those who also sleep more than 9 hours increase their risk of death. In this study, there was no such link found, and Dr. Cappuccio thinks those who sleep 9 hours or more may have other ailments and sickness linking to extra time in bed.
This brings us to our usual pillars of good health: eat early and often, only natural foods in their natural shape, or frozen versions; get out into the fresh air and walk, walk, walk, or onto your new exercise machine and row, row, row your boat gently merrily to good sweast, lights out early, in bed by 10, no TV in your bedroom, never fall asleep in front of your TV or your internal melatonin is depleted and can’t rebuild in time for you to have a good night’s sleep. You can see how your unhealthy Catch-22 habits come right around back at you like a boomerang, and you don’t sleep. And when you don’t sleep enough-you need 8 hours sleep nightly to be Perfect- you wake up cranky, don’t eat properly to begin the day, eat non nutritious junkitos and stay wired on coffee, grabbing something fast and not what could take you five minutes to put together from your own newer better kitchen and fridge freezer with ice maker, lots of pure filtered water ice cubes in your pure fruit drinks and foods. Ah, such a difference that would make.
So, it is your bus, and if you are driving it without proper diet, exercise and sleep, imagine if you also had family or kids on board with you, depending on you to get yourself there healthy, so you can have many another joyful time together. But for you to show up, you might need to review and change. And have more fun, really. And be around for all those who love and adore you, to go on doing just that. And rejoicing at seeing a healthier you. Be an inspiration, not a desparation. Aunt Agatha and I’ll wave if we walk by, see you on your home gym, sipping your new fridge’s filtered water system with its pure ice cubes, this for pomegrante juice. Here’s to our good long sleeps- and life.
So cut down the glare, Blair, turn off the TV, Dee, get out and walk, Jock, or hop on your home machine, Jean, work up a sweat, Jet, make yourself go, Flo, get a real tired bod, Rod, so at night your head drops, Pops, then out with the light, Dwight, dream of magic moon night. No fight. Kiss good night. Sleep tight, sleep eight. Wake bright, feel Great. Shower, shave, and eat. Go eat some raw meat. Get em, gator. See you later.
Smiles. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team
Studies show women’s brains grow after giving birth, yet they sleep 3-5 hours: Mom you all need 8 !
The demands of giving birth, and becoming responsible for a new life that you have co created, are intense and immediate. These intense experiences all come so quickly, sapping a woman’s strength and energy, much of which she has just passed to her new little angel, with father nearside, holding hands, nurturing. Which mom will need so very much in the months, and several years in particular, as much as her new baby.
Studies also show that new moms get 3-5 hours sleep, new dads not much more. And studies show that we need 8 hours of sleep nightly to recharge our bodies and re create our melatonin levels to allow our required 8 hours of sleep. And yet new mom’s, whose brains begin to expand immediately as they try to think clearly with their body chemistry askew, get inadequate sleep, and too many baby safety gadgets make that worse, going off for every squirm. New moms have to pay attention to when the baby is too quiet, or too noisy: mothers soon get to have eyes in the back of their heads, fathers also if they are also at home raising the child, which is a wonderful thing for the child in a home parenting environment as long as it is happy and nurturing. And a family routine will evolve.
But for the time, may be useful for mom, or dad, get catch up sleep. Mom might want to buy dad an early birthday present, use his card and buy a great new barbeque grill, which dad’s love to take charge of: get Him a Chef’s White Bib that says CHEF or I Am the Boss, and mom go get some cat naps while dad promises no burnt parts, medium rare steak, yams and yellow peppers safely wrapped in aluminum foil; get him the large econo pack of foil, meats, fruits and veggies. You need a new fridge, with two doors, a fridge freezer, get the pure water filtration system now with a family to keep healthy, connect to the ice maker in the fridge, never worry again about your ice cubes in your health drinks. And you can have someone shop once a week and stack your larger new fridge freezer. Fit for life.
Bottom line is, mom needs to catch up on her sleep, her body is recovering, her mind expanding
For a new mother, this is most primal experience of life, the most awesome moments. While all very exciting, new motherhood can be scary and overwhelming. Aunt Agatha and I have had our times through it, but pressures are so much more now. So get him the nicest all meal all season grill, mom, and enjoy. So let’s grill that steak, Jake, help the new mom, make her tum hum, she’ll love ya tomorrow, you just need to borrow, from Cary Grant, or was that Hugh, on how to grill on your barbeque…
Good luck, mom, dad, and baby. Be the Best glorious flowers you can be. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team
NOTICE TO NEW MOMS (WHO GET 3-5 HRS SLEEP) BUY HIM A GRILL, HE WILL COOK WITH A SMILE
In it’s July 2007 issue, Men’s Health features a “Trial by Fire”, in which they compare a variety of grills. They compared: it’s ARRE-
Acceleration rate from zero to perfect zap the steak temp, Range of highest heat to even low, Retention of juice in the meat, veggies. Evenness of heat over it’s signature area (the grill base). The winner was the “grill master” at $10,500 the most expensive model, its 100,000 BTU’s blasting a steak evenly cooked in minutes. Back with the rest of us on Mother Earth, the other grill choices also did a superb job, at much less expense, such as a George Foreman grill . So when choosing your next upgrade grill, consider ARRE- Acceleration rate, Range between highest and lowest heat, Retention rate, and ‘Evenness of cooking signature over the grill. Some hints: creating diamond marks add professional polish to your backyard grilling. Place meat on diagonally, after 3 to 4 minutes, rotate 45 degrees. Then flip the meat and repeat on the opposite side.Watch that the grill you do decide on doesn’t allow flameouts at the side, which can affect the evenness of cooking steak and vegetables. You can pay extra for superior cast iron steel burners in the grill of your dreams. At the price and all it accomplishes, the George Forman grill is for us the way to go.
One element clearly in better nutrition habits is better nutrition planning.
Create a food list of fresh, packaged, or frozen that will allow you a weeks supply of natures widest range of the purples, blacks, reds, orange, yellow, dark green and a weeks supply of 7 different cuts of meat, or fish, or soy burgers, lamb or pork chops, freezer packages of frozen turkey and chicken breasts, as well as all the fresh, mostly frozen healthiest dark veggies, all takes space. So, n order to put your life, your plans, your goals into action you should try to afford that larger new ouble door Frigidaire fridge and freezer as your most vital healthy body central: your promised land. Feast in the morning, nibble the day away, nice salmon salad for lunch, then nibble foods hourly. Hug your new fridge, each time you take some pure ice cubes for your Pom.com pomegranate or RW Kudsen Cranberry juice. Keep your Frigidaire filled so it can do that for you, when ever you want. This takes shopping and planning, and it can be handled mostly once a week. Healthy food and griil-ready protein requires space, and planning, to have it, and each essential food and supplement to your perfect health handy. When you have that as a new habit, my son (or daughter), then you will be a healthy person.
There right near you, handy at your side is your well stocked new fridge with pure water ice cubes is a sense of assurance to your body and soul: one less item to stress about, is there a healthy snack around here for all and any of us? Plums, not cheetos, are snacks. . If you are out, and it’s not handy, your body gets punished by your lack of planning. So, think ahead, plan shopping days, take a list, get your old powdered grains and sodium high packaged goods out and start anew. For your improved diet habits, your life will be changed by a better, larger Frigidaire fridge freezer: we recommend one with an ice cube maker that you can hook to, under your sink water filtrator system. Pure water, pure ice cubes, space enough to store a weeks supply of all your healthy no fat meats, fish, fresh fruits, freezer laden with frozen Delnor and Green Giant dark veggies and foods galore.
Thrown out with the old fridge was most of the “junque foode” that was inside the old besides the mould,the prepared meals, pops, frozen fruit “drinks”. In with the new fridge freezer, with it’s pure water system to a healthier you. Your friends will be delighted, your few foes threatened enough to play nice. Work out, your new power look, your more confident gaze, your constant plum eating: they notice.
Say, it’s a new you, Stew, you gotta eat great, Nate, walk on the sunny side, Clyde, keep dancing those foots, Toots, walking all the way to the bank, Hank, then up Blueberry Hill , Jill, we’ll get our thrill, see Bill, buy some more, at his produce store, no falling back, Jack, we on the right track, party hearty till 10, Ben, but then, glass of Welch’s Prune Juice, Tom, use the Oralb then Tom, brush the teeth like Heath, then lights out, you pout, Yes, when Ben bongs Ten, I’ve said my prayers again, then I’m in the sack, Jack, without a late snack. But after eight hours in my dreams, I wake up full of themes, eat a plate of oats and chemes, don’t forget the berries, and it’s happening all again, same healthy hope refrain; smaller gut, bigger brain…
Smiles. Derek Dashwood and your Dash for Power Team
Scottish researchers studied 1,000 international travellers, and found that those who donned wrap-around sunglasses with 100 percent UV protection in the first few hours after their flight arrival recovered from jet lag up to 3 days sooner that flyer’s who skipped the sunglasses. This advice from doctors at Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit. So if you do not use sunglasses and are thinking about travel, it might be cheaper to invest in an excellent pair of power sunglasses than waste three nights in a hotel room upon arrival, awake all night, asleep all day.
And, with our perfect mental state, did you know that Taiwanese scientists have found that a 50 milligram (mg) dose of lignans disease fighting compounds found in flax-seed-caused 9 out of 10 men to significantly lose less hair. Buy ground whole flax-seeds, take one and one half tablespoons daily for the lignans you need. Flax needs refrigeration, I prefer the Flax oil, tidy bottle from health stores, pour it on salads daily.
Entries (RSS)