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Friday, December 11, 2009
Why You Should “Sleep” Your Weight Blues Away
Trying to maintain your weight? Get a good night’s sleep.
This statement may sound a bit preposterous, but do you know that you shouldn’t underestimate the power of a good sleep in managing your weight and staying on the road to optimal health?
Top health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola says that while good food planning forms the groundwork for the No-Grain Diet, other vital factors such as sleep should be integrated into your weight loss efforts. Thus he proposes the Weight Loss Trio, or “three indispensable measures for reversing the insulin cycle and losing weight”: taking on a grain-free diet, exercising, and getting a good night’s sleep.
This stress on the importance of sleep is supported by other studies. A recent one reveals that your risk of obesity increases when you sleep less than six and a half hours a night, while another conducted by a University of Chicago research team shows that chronic sleep deprivation increases insulin resistance as aging exactly does.
But given the collective pressure, stress, and anxieties in this modern world, how do you fight the tyranny of wakefulness? How do you attain the ideal eight hours of sleep a day?
Dr. Mercola says that in itself, the No-Grain Diet supports a restful sleep pattern. The regular exercise that it espouses, for instance, prepares your body to relax when bedtime comes.
There are other tools useful for attaining a good sleep, including the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for addressing tension and avoidance of habits that can negatively affect melatonin production.
Dr. Mercola says that following the No-Grain Diet religiously also means mastering lifestyle basics. The success of this weight loss diet should not be pinned on good, healthy food alone; often-neglected factors such as sleep, drinking habits, smoking, and exposure to sun, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and light sources should also be taken into account.
This synergistic approach to shedding those extra pounds, says Dr. Mercola, will spell so much difference, and it will make weight loss efforts such as the No-Grain Diet an embodied goal for the rest of your life.
This statement may sound a bit preposterous, but do you know that you shouldn’t underestimate the power of a good sleep in managing your weight and staying on the road to optimal health?
Top health expert Dr. Joseph Mercola says that while good food planning forms the groundwork for the No-Grain Diet, other vital factors such as sleep should be integrated into your weight loss efforts. Thus he proposes the Weight Loss Trio, or “three indispensable measures for reversing the insulin cycle and losing weight”: taking on a grain-free diet, exercising, and getting a good night’s sleep.
This stress on the importance of sleep is supported by other studies. A recent one reveals that your risk of obesity increases when you sleep less than six and a half hours a night, while another conducted by a University of Chicago research team shows that chronic sleep deprivation increases insulin resistance as aging exactly does.
But given the collective pressure, stress, and anxieties in this modern world, how do you fight the tyranny of wakefulness? How do you attain the ideal eight hours of sleep a day?
Dr. Mercola says that in itself, the No-Grain Diet supports a restful sleep pattern. The regular exercise that it espouses, for instance, prepares your body to relax when bedtime comes.
There are other tools useful for attaining a good sleep, including the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for addressing tension and avoidance of habits that can negatively affect melatonin production.
Dr. Mercola says that following the No-Grain Diet religiously also means mastering lifestyle basics. The success of this weight loss diet should not be pinned on good, healthy food alone; often-neglected factors such as sleep, drinking habits, smoking, and exposure to sun, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and light sources should also be taken into account.
This synergistic approach to shedding those extra pounds, says Dr. Mercola, will spell so much difference, and it will make weight loss efforts such as the No-Grain Diet an embodied goal for the rest of your life.
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