One of the biggest sleep myths you see pushed around on the internet is that napping can make it more difficult for you to sleep and should be avoided as much as possible. The fact is this couldn’t be more wrong – particularly if you’re only getting 6 hours sleep or less per night on average. The only real situation where you might recommend someone avoid naps entirely would be if they were suffering from sleep-onset insomnia (i.e they struggle to fall asleep). In that situation a nap (especially a longer nap) could be making the situation worse. So you…
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One of the things that we ask straight up when we start talking with clients is – how much time each day you spend outside in the sun? This is even more the case when we are: Talking with clients who live in a place that is located more toward the northern or southern extreme in terms of latitudes and therefore experiences much shorter days during winter. Talking with clients who have a job that requires them to be indoors through the majority of the available daylight hours. As we’ve mentioned before on this website, we evolved to live by…
Below you’ll find some powerful quotes that you can use for inspiration as you push on towards your weight loss goals. Add the images to your Pinterest boards or whatever tool you use for inspiration and motivation. But before you check those out, can I ask you a quick question… How would you like to lose weight AND get paid cash? Sounds a bit gimicky, right? But here’s the thing. There’s actually some science to the idea. It turns out that using cash as an incentive has actually been PROVEN to improve your chances of losing weight. It increases your…
In 2008, a scientific study was carried out by several professors at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.Their goal was to find the answer to one simple question…Could financial incentives be useful for weight loss?The results were pretty conclusive…Dieters with a financial incentive were almost five times more likely to reach their target weight than dieters without an incentive plan.Dieters in the experiment group lost more than three times more weight, on average, than dieters in the control group.Great…so how can you take advantage of that information to lose some weight yourself?Well luckily for you (and thousands of other people…
If stress is playing a part in your poor sleep, then learning to relax and manage your stress is going to be crucial. And it’s not just stress in the hours before bed. Studies have shown that elevated stress through the middle of the day can actually result in elevated levels of stress hormones at night. So it’s possible to get home from a tough day at work and be suffering a ‘stress hangover’ from something that happened many hours ago. In order to minimize those impacts you’re going to need to learn a technique that works for you in…
There has been a massive rise in the use of mobile devices over the past decade and many people would struggle to live life without their preferred phone or tablet.Unfortunately this has also led to a rise in poor sleep habits caused by the use of these devices later in the evening when we should be winding down and getting ready for bed.SO what exactly is it about our mobile devices that are causing poor sleep?What The Research Is ShowingResearch has now shown that when you’re using these devices immediately before bed time:You feel more alert just as you’re about…
If you’ve ever had the misfortune to spend any time in a hospital than you’ve likely experienced what it’s like to sleep in a traditional adjustable bed. These beds are created in such a way as to allow the incline of the bed to be changed so that you can reposition yourself depending on whether you’re awake or asleep. Traditionally in the home market, adjustable beds were seen as the sort of bed an elderly person would buy if they were either confined to spending a lot of time in bed or they had specific mobility or pain issues that…
Myth #1 – You Shouldn’t Nap For More Than 20 Minutes The 20 minute nap is also known as the power nap, and it has become common for people to give you the advice that you shouldn’t nap for longer than this. The reason they give that advice has to do with sleep stages and sleep inertia. Sleep inertia is the slight grogginess you feel sometimes when you wake up. It can happen after waking from regular sleep as well as naps. Sleep inertia happens when you wake from deeper stages of sleep. This is where your brain waves are…
The Power Of Oxygen If you’ve ever slept at high altitude you might have noticed that you didn’t sleep as well – especially for the first couple of nights. At altitude, the reduced availability of oxygen in the blood results in breathing instability. This causes sleep disturbances with frequent awakenings and a feeling of lack of air. This generally results in reduced total sleep time, poor sleep efficiency, and reduced Slow Wave Sleep and REM sleep. So essentially, sleeping at altitude causes poor sleep efficiency and messes with your sleep architecture. At the heart of this is breathing and oxygen.…
Below you will find an always growing collection of delicious yet healthy chicken recipes. You can use the tabs to filter the videos then click to open and watch. Click through to Youtube if you want written instructions for that video (although not all videos will have written instructions). Make sure you bookmark this page or save it to Pinterest to refer back to in the future as we will be regularly adding new videos that we find. All Grill International Pan Oven Wok Kids Air Fryer Salad New All All Grill International Pan Oven Wok Kids Air Fryer Salad…