How much sleep is enough?

How much sleep is enough?

The general consensus is that women require six to seven hours and men seven to eight for optimal health- but it’s essential that those hours include rotations through several healthy cycles of REM and non-REM stages.
How much sleep is enough?

Your Daily Choices.

Optimal health isn’t a destination but a state of being that you achieve-a change in orientation whereby you create a new state of being that revolves around making the daily choices that support health.
How much sleep is enough?

Run for your life.

Joggers have a 40-percent lower risk of dying at an early age than people who don’t jog regularly, according to Stanford University researchers. Runners are less likely to have cardiovascular problems or develop disabilities as they age. Motivate yourself to become...
How much sleep is enough?

As summer approaches, aim for morning sweat sessions.

In hot conditions, study participants who worked out at 7 a.m. could go almost 14 percent longer than when they did so at 7 p.m., according to research from Loughborough University in England. Core body temperature is lower in the early hours so you stay cooler....
How much sleep is enough?

Go Green!

Drinking green tea with your antibiotics helps the medication destroy harmful bacteria up to three times more effectively, researchers found.