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Monthly Archives: January 2015
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Bad Night’s Sleep? Here Are Some Quick Fixes
No matter how good your sleep habits are, there’s going to come a time when no matter what you try, you’re just not able to get to sleep. Half of the battle is the sure knowledge that the next day is going to be an absolute nightmare because of it, but that doesn’t have to be the case. If you’ve had one of those awful nights where you either didn’t get to bed until really late, couldn’t fall asleep, or woke up in the middle of the night and then just couldn’t get your sleep groove back, here are some tips to help you make it through the day. Continue reading
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Choosing the Right Mattress
Some people are incredibly organized about the way they run their lives, and even keep track of their purchases and the anticipated lifespan of the product they’ve bought so that they know exactly when it’s time to go shopping for a replacement. These are the same people who change the oil in their car every three thousand miles on the dot, change the filter on their furnace based on a calendar entry, and never miss an application of their dog’s flea and tick medicine. Then there are those who pay no attention to these types of details. The oil gets taken care of when the red light goes on, the flea and tick medicine gets applied when we see it sitting in the cabinet, and as for their big investments, they get replaced when they’re falling apart. Continue reading
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Sleep Positions and Your Health
Seems as though sleeping should be a pretty easy thing to do. It’s one of those things we’ve been doing since we were born, yet there are an astonishing number of things that you can find out you’ve been doing wrong. One of those things may be the position you’ve been sleeping in. Though that may seem as if it is something that is out of your control, and that your body chooses for itself, the truth is that you can train yourself out of bad sleeping habits and into healthier ones. Let’s look at the different sleep positions to see the advantages and disadvantages that each offers. Continue reading
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Foods that Boost Your Sleep Potential
Of all the ways that you can help yourself get a better night’s sleep, eating the right foods may be the easiest and most pleasurable. Just as there are certain things that you need to stay away from in order to keep yourself from a night spent staring at the ceiling (think coffee, caffeinated tea and even alcohol), there are a bevy of foods that science and nutritional experts say will make you both more and less likely to fall asleep. A diet that is made up of foods that have low nutritional values of alpha carotene, selenium, lauric acid and calcium have been shown to have a detrimental effect on people’s ability to fall asleep, while those low in Vitamin D, butanoic acid, lauric acid and lycopene make it difficult to stay asleep — the same is true of diets low in calories, carbs, potassium, vitamin C, and even simply being dehydrated. Continue reading
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