Lose Weight While You SleepWritten by Heather Moreno, PeopleFit USA
Believe it or not, sleep has a great deal to do with how and what you eat and maintaining your weight.Your body runs according to your biological clock. This clock is difficult if not impossible to change. So, you must create your lifestyle around this internal clock. Most of us structure our sleep around our work, family and home life with less thought to what our bodies need – we’re dealing with life. But there is good incentive to make a change. A lack of sleep can affect your weight in two ways: 1.People who lack sleep are more likely to overeat. Your ability to be in tune to hunger is diminished and research shows that sleep-deprived people tend to eat 15% more food than those who get sleep they need. Many go for high- sugar comfort foods, like cookies and candy, for a quick energy boost. In a sleep-deprived state, body will store more calories as fat thinking a crisis is near. Ugh!
| | Learning To Manage Your StressWritten by Susan Rutter
Stress may not be a laughing matter to you. But maybe it should be. Humor is one of most powerful stress-reducing tools there is. "Just as studies have shown negative effects of stress on body, we're now finding that humor has positive effects," says Karyn Buxman, R.N., editor of "Therapeutic Humor, journal of National Association for Therapeutic Humor. When you laugh, your heart rate and blood pressure rise -- giving your cardiovascular system a mini-aerobic workout -- then temporarily dip lower than they were before. Your immune system makes more immune cells.Learning to manage stress isn't just good for your body. It keeps your mind and spirit more youthful, too. With fewer worries to tax your brain, don't be surprised if your noggin becomes more nimble. Under highly stressful conditions, it's simply harder to remember things and to concentrate. When stress hits high gear, you may be unable to retain a sentence that you have just read or remember someone you met minutes before.
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