First Read This Sitting Down Chairs are not dangerous to you as sculpture. Some Carlo Mollino and other 20th century designer chairs are now going for a million bucks. These types of chairs are perfectly safe as they are much too expensive to sit in. The dangerous ones are the chairs of cloth, polyvinyl, naugahyde, […]
Leaving rehab – what to do when you’re out (10/21/10)
(Lindsay Lohan walked into Rehab reading my book “The Power of Rest,” and is scheduled to leave Rehab on October 22nd. This note is for her and others leaving inpatient addiction treatment.) Leaving Rehab – What to Do When You’re Out Once you leave the tough times start. You’re exiting the cocoon, the tight environment […]
Weight, light and body clocks – timing dining right (10/19/10)
When You East is as Important as What The conclusion – “When you eat could be as important as what you eat,” is virtually the same sentence I wrote ten years ago. The article is from this week’s Economist, with its excellent science section, entitled “Does light make you fat?” The real question – what […]
What does alcohol do to my sleep? (10/11/10)
Alcohol and Sleep America’s favorite knock out drop is not its best. Did you know: An ounce of alcohol at bedtime will lead to 15-25 extra arousals during sleep? Imbibing alcohol at midnight has about 2-3 times the physiologic effect of alcohol at 6 PM? No one really knows the mechanism […]
Some don’t need much sleep (10/7/10)
Sleep Styles of the Rich and Famous Pity Wyclef Jean. The entertainer had hoped to become president of Haiti, but his candidacy was thrown out by the national electoral commission supposedly because Jean had lived in New Jersey and not the disaster plagued island these past five years (New Jersey Tourism Commission, please note.) Overcome […]