Good sleep could make you slim

It may not be necessarily diet control or exercise, but if you want to become slim develop a good sleeping habit, suggests a new book after looking at a host of new research.

Sleepless nights significantly disrupt our hormones and metabolism, leaving us much more prone to overeating and weight gain, according to 'The Duvet Diet - Sleep Yourself Slim' written by health journalist Jane Worthington, reported online edition of Daly Mail.

But once you get into healthy sleep habits, she says in the book, you'll find it much easier to control your appetite and lose weight. She quoted several studies including a recent one of more than 6,000 people carried out at Columbia University, America.

People who slept four hours or less per night were 73 percent more likely to be obese than those who slept between seven and nine hours a night, it said. And those who got five hours sleep a night were still 50 percent more likely to be obese.

Other evidence to back up Worthington's theory comes from a series of pioneering studies by the University Libre de Bruxelles and the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Illinois, both of which showed clear links between metabolic changes and sleep deprivation.

In the first study, healthy young men were observed during a 16-day sleep trial. For three of those days the men had eight-hour periods of sleep; for the next six days they slept for just four hours; and for the last seven days they had 12-hour sleep periods.

It was found that at the end of the four-hour nights, the subjects had significantly decreased levels of the hormone leptin.

'Leptin provides our brains with the 'stop feeding me - I've stored enough food' signal,' explains Worthington. 'If the levels of leptin are decreased, the brain starts to tell the body it's hungry when it's not, so this may increase the drive for food intake and, ultimately, contribute to obesity.'
http://www.rxpgnews.com/fitness/Good-sleep-could-make-you-slim_7472.shtml

How To Live For A Thousand Years.

I was reading the blog of one called Mike, I came across the same good principle for longevity. To say the same thing again but from different source.

How To Live For A Thousand Years.

"And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called him Seth. And the days after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years; and he begat sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and then he died"

"And Methuselah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years and begat Lamech. And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred and eighty two years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty nine years, and he then died."

I am sure many must have wondered at some time what wonderful secret these great men possessed that enabled them to live for nearly a thousand years and also to father children at well over a hundred years of age.

The answer was primarily in their diet. They existed on a frugal diet of fruit and herbs, coupled with regular periods of fasting. This combination brought about perfect health and vitality and the regeneration of their youth.

Man was created to live and not to die. Death is unnatural. The soul is immortal and the spirit is immortal. If the blood is pure and the glandular system is in perfect working order then the body is potentially immortal too.

The ancients achieved perfect health and longevity by:

http://www.how-to-live-a-1000-years.blogspot.com/

In hibernation till july end

FASTING IS BENEFICIAL

Well, I personally believe that fasting every week or fortnight is beneficial, animal research has proven it conclusively, good thing is that now human studies are also confirming the same findings.


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-04-04T224055Z_01_SCH481569_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-EATING-LESS-DC.XML&archived=False


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/health/05diet.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=ca695744bcdb8aeb&hp=&ex=1144209600&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1144235135-nqQ+OXjje1xIKrs2Wu9QsQ&oref=slogin

Apology

First I apologise for going into hibernation without informing.

Prehypertension

Whether to treat prehypertension or not?

Prehypertension, defined as the blood-pressure range of 120 to 139 mm Hg systolic or 80 to 89
mm Hg diastolic, is present in about 70 million Americans. The condition heralds arterial hypertension and thus may be considered a starting point in the cardiovascular disease continuum. Because of its high prevalence and long-term complications, prehypertension has been estimated to decrease the average life expectancy by as much as five years.Unfortunately, current preventive strategies, although admirable from both individual and societal perspectives, are weak .
With respect to patients with prehypertension who have diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease, the data are already fairly clear.In fact, current guidelines recommend medical treatment of such patients if a trial of lifestyle modification fails to reduce blood pressure below 130/80 mm Hg. Moreover, antihypertensive treatment in patients with blood pressure in the prehypertensive range and coexisting vascular conditions may improve organ protection.

Currently, recommendations for the management of prehypertension propose a healthful diet
including sodium restriction, enhanced physical activity, weight loss, and moderation of alcohol
intake. Such lifestyle interventions modulate more than a single risk factor. Moreover, such programs may directly address the mechanisms augmenting the epidemic growth of obesity, diabetes, and prehypertension and hypertension in Western societies.

So if there are other comorbid conditions, it is better to be treated for prehypertension along with above modifications.

Controlling Pain

The ability to feel pain varies with each individual. The way we respond to it also varies. Taking drugs to control pain has its own side effects. There is lot of research going on in the area of pain.
It has recently been found that you can control pain by concentrating on the area of brain involved in pain.
Stanford University researchers found seeing brain scans and using mental exercises helped reduce pain. It is not that important according to me what they did in the study, for there are different studies showing various benefits by different mechanisms.
My suggestion , by becoming aware of the pain and trying to have a mental picture of the pain area in your brain and a sort of meditating on it, u will be able to release pain. There are different areas of the brain meant for controlling different functions. Pain is a complex problem and bothering which areas are involved may not be easy for a common man. The best is to take help of meditation. Also relese of endorphins helps reduce pain.
All this suggestion is specifically for chronic pain and wisdom should prevail better. The fact is that this benefit comes only after the brain has been trained for some time. So a disciplined training of brain will help in controlling pain.