Sleeping For Rest and Activeness

Healthy sleep is as important as diet, exercise and stress management for health. 

Many American's fail to make the effort to get healthy sleep, believing that sleep is expendable. Research is beginning to show us that this is not true. We are losing sleep at our own risk.

"There is plenty of compelling evidence supporting the argument that sleep is the most important predictor of how long you will live, perhaps more important than whether you smoke, exercise, or have high blood pressure or cholesterol levels."(1) 

Believe it or not, getting healthy sleep...

* Can increase your ability to think clearly and function at your highest level
* Can boost althletic performance by 30%
* Improves your skin and appearance
* Helps you lose weight
* Improves your memory and ability to learn
* Decreases your risk of diabetes
* Helps to protect your heart and decrease your risk of heart disease
* Improves your ability to fight off infections
* Decreases your risk of accidents(2-4)

The Benefits of Sleep:

"We are not healthy unless our sleep is healthy." writes sleep research pioneer, William Dement, MD(1).

Intuitively, we've always known that sleep is important. "There's nothing better than a good night's sleep" is a common expression of this understanding. But for some reason we don't listen to our own wisdom. As children most of us had bedtimes that were the law of the household. Our parent's made sure that we got enough sleep. They knew what was good for us. As we got older most of us seem to have forgotten or ignored the value of sleep. We live in a culture that values industriousness, work and productivity, and that frowns on lethargy. Within just the past year (2008) there has been a surge of media attention on healthy sleep and insomnia. This is largely a result of more research coming out on the ill effects of insomnia for previously unsuspected conditions like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity and weight gain. Researchers now suggest that insomnia is a major risk factor for these diseases. From a medical point of view, sleep can be understood as a state of mind experiencing reduced levels of consciousness involving a temporary inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles, and a relative suspension of sensory and non-motor activity. In simple terms, sleep is an impermanent physical and mental state of the mind during which most of the external stimuli are blocked from the senses, and the individual stops responding to the environment. There are different types of "sleeps" depending upon the intensity and manifestation of sleeping criteria. The ability of the person to "awake", or come out from the transitory partial inactive state of the mind depends upon several factors, and these factors vary from person-to-person. Even though it can't be proved on a conclusive basis, medical experts believe the basic purpose of sleep is to create a state of inertness in the human body, during which the body can repair itself and regulate the metabolism to improve its functioning, and the state of inertness helps save the energy which is utilized for the rejuvenation process

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Repair theory As per this theory, during the "awake" period, the body is physically and mentally responding to the various activities associated with our daily activities and this consumes large amounts of energy. The energy utilized is depleted from the energy reserves stored in various parts of the body. The replenishment and body repair activities can occur effectively when the body is undergoing a state of rest - when no extra energy is utilized for any physical processes or activities. The sleep period ensures all the resources in the body are utilized in an optimum manner for the maintenance and up-keep of the various metabolic processes occurring in our body that keep us alive.

Adaptive theory  
According to this theory, sleep is a naturally evolved phenomenon that humans and animals adapted to for their survival. Sleeping helps in preserving energy, and prevents exposure to dangers and predators.

Bedding is also an important thing to discuss when it comes to talk about the good home improvement. Can you find the best bed for your room? In this case, you should never forget that there are many different types of bed you can see out there in the market. What should you choose then? If you still do not get the clue, the following explanation will tell you more about the details of such matter. The first thing about choosing the best bed is that you should choose the most suitable one with your need. It can be about the material, shape, size, design, color, finishing, and so on. You can find several different kinds of beds out there in the market, such as the leather beds, wooden beds and also mattresses. Are they the only examples? No, they are not, since you can find headboards, metal beds and kid beds as well. The various beds come to the existence for nothing but fulfilling the various needs of many customers out there. Which one do you like best?

Choosing the best bed will bring several different benefits to you. The first is the good night sleep. You should remember that there are many factors which make people get the good sleep, and the suitable bed becomes the main important factor to consider. Anyway, what things you must consider very well in dealing with the best bed? You need to make sure that you can get the worthy item, thus the money you would have spent will be used in the most appropriate way.

All The Best

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