5 Benefits of a good night sleep

Even though we spend a third of our life sleeping, that doesn’t mean that we lose that part and we can’t get any benefits from it. That is entirely false, because if you manage to rest during your sleep, you will improve the results of your daily activities.

So here are some benefits that you can get by sleeping “by the book”:

1. The sleep is a primary need of your body so if don’t sleep you will die. That means that the most important benefit of sleeping is the advantage to be alive.

2. All the professional bodybuilders know that the muscular mass grows during the sleep, not when you are weight lifting. If you are used to party late and you don’t let your body relax, the entire workout routine will be in vane and you won’t spot any notable results.

3. The lack of sleep destabilizes the immunity system of your body making you more exposed to diseases. A nap during the day may also increase your health condition and it can even offer you an increased protection against heart diseases.

4. According to scientist, sleep is necessary because it helps the body to regenerate certain parts, especially the brain. After prolonged periods of deprivation of sleep, neurons are affected, which is manifested by behavior problems. Each stage of sleep is necessary for the regeneration of neurons in the cortex and to enhance the memory.

5. A recent study, published in Journal of the American Medical Association by Christopher King and his colleagues from the University of Chicago, had shown that the length of the sleep can influence your heart condition. The study results revealed that every additional hour of sleep reduce heart attack menace by 33 %.

In addition, a good night sleep can improve your social life, because it is easier to communicate when you feel and you look fresh and energized.

Therefore, I have only one thing left to say: ready, set, fall asleep !

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Written by: Liviu Moldovan

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Insomnia and the problems caused by it

Insomnia is a symptom of sleeping disorder, and it is characterized by persistent difficulty to fall asleep. I want to underline the fact that Insomnia is not a disease or a stand-alone diagnosis as some of you might think, but instead, Insomnia is a symptom. By definition “insomnia is difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep or both”.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in year 2007, aproximatively 64 million Americans suffer from insomnia on a regular basis each year. And it’s been known also that insomnia occurs 1.5 times more often to woman than to men.

There are different degrees of insomnia, but three of them are the most common identified: transient, acute and chronic.

Though there are three types of insomnia the most common is Transient Insomnia, which can last from days to weeks. In most cases it can be caused by another disorder: here are some examples will be the changes in the sleep schedule, or environment, changing the timing of sleep, stress, depression. Having transient insomnia, can have some consequences like impaired psychomotor performance, sleepiness, tiredness, can also get the stress in scene, and that is not good at all.

I decided to write this post because last week, I was suffering from insomnia a couple of days, and it got consequences on the whole week, and messed up all my schedule.

I got insomnia by not having a normal sleep program, and by not sleeping at night, followed by days of work. The funny thing is that when you have insomnia, you’re never really awake, and never really asleep. Having insomnia feels like sleepwalking, or maybe like being drunk.

Insomnia is bad for you. So try having some sleep, try relaxing and focusing on how to sleep and rest. Not sleeping will make you tired, and tiredness can make you stressed, and all these factors cumulated can make you sick.

After some days of not being able to sleep and suffering from insomnia I managed to relax and to rest by following some methods to fight insomnia (one of them really worked for me).

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How to work and live a healthy life

Many of you people may think that I’ve climbed a tree and fallen from it, but more important than working at your desk is to have a healthy life. And very rarely an obese person is a healthy one. Here I can give an unfortunate example from my family, my father weights 300 pounds and got two different diseases in two consecutive months. Therefore, I will give you 5 tips which I thought that could be useful in the battle with the extra pounds gained in front of the computer.

1. Roll your neck. When you sit in front of the computer, you accumulate a considerable amount of stress from your body in your neck, and that stress influences negatively your body fat. This exercise will help you lose weight and as a bonus, it will get you relaxed.

2. Drink cold water. You can burn 100 calories if you choose as refreshment an ice cold beverage, and you drink approximately eight glasses. Note that it should be a beverage without calories.

3. Eat foods that burn calories. Spinach, celery, lettuce and cucumbers can help your body consume more calories that you ingest, even if they have an awkward taste, no offense for the vegetarians.

4. Eat spicy food. You can raise the metabolic rate of your organism by eating spicy food, and you should also encounter the “sweat factor”.

5. Drink strong coffee. The coffee also increases your metabolic rate, and you also became more active and burn more calories, but you should always remember that it worth drinking coffee only if it is without sugar.
Bonus tip: Stop making money online for an hour or two and take a long and liberating walk outside, you may even get some good ideas while taking a breath of fresh air, and maybe you will realize that it wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

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