Don't Give Up The Sleep
Author: Search RankprosWe have become a society of very busy people with lots to do every day, and we use our lack of time as the excuse for not staying fit and healthy. We often grab fast food, substitute fatty or sugary drinks for water, never take thirty minutes out of our hectic day for exercise, and convince ourselves we are too busy to get enough sleep or even tend to bathroom needs immediately.
Our diet has
too little nutritional value and too little fiber, and
our bodies don't get enough movement for muscle toning
and good cardiovascular health. We don't get the amount
of vitamins and minerals the human body needs everyday
to function properly and remain healthy.
Our diets often are loaded with chemicals and we don't
get enough sleep or water for our bodies to heal and purge
all the toxins.
What does all this unhealthy lifestyle mean for us? It means we're becoming an overweight and sick group here in the 21st century. Type II diabetes is escalating among the young as fast as obesity, and more people are taking blood pressure medicine and depression medication than ever before.
Pain medicine for arthritis is bringing
in billions of dollars a year to the pharmaceutical companies.
Vitamin deficiency is very common these days, and thyroid
disease has escalated rapidly since WWII. Our bodies are
aging faster than our chronological ages.
Our individual attempts at solutions have been disasters
for most, ranging from all kinds of crazy and faddish diets
to obsessions with prescription drugs that we hope have the
miracle answer for our failure to live healthy. Is there
a simple answer to getting healthy and staving off some
of the ravages of age? Yes, but it takes a stick of dynamite
under us for most people to go the simple route. Here are
the only five things you have to do:
1. Make sure you
eat all the things your body needs every day, use supplements
when necessary, and eat none of the things that harm your body,
2. Drink eight glasses of water every day,
3. Exercise thirty minutes a day, walking or salsa it doesn't matter,
4. Go to the bathroom immediately when you feel the urge, and
5. Get at least eight hours sleep a night.
The last thing on my list is sleep. Like water, the importance of enough sleep cannot be overestimated. Your body needs sleep to repair all those little things that happen to it each day - no sleep, no repair. Lack of sleep also has affects on your body such as making you feel extremely hungry the next day, mostly for sugars.
Did you ever notice how candy bars and sodas can keep you going late night if you feel like you have to keep yourself awake to finish that project? Same thing happens to you the next day if you don't get enough sleep; your body craves fast energy to keep going after it has run out of energy and needs repair time. So, just don't give up the sleep.
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