Moving and Eating Walk after meals. Stand and move after you eat. You’ve probably heard this advice somewhere. But does it really work? If the goal is preventing diabetes, it seems to prove true – at least for a group of folks studied at George Washington University. The Study People 60 and over at risk […]
Twilight consciousness – can you text while asleep (and what does that say about you?) (8/10/11)
Burning to Communicate Can you text while asleep? Many claim to do just that. They wake up in the morning and find they’ve sent a text to someone and have no recollection they did it (http://www.ketv.com/r/28610984/detail.html.) Sometimes the text is nonsense, sometimes its message is rational but banal. What’s Going On? People are now […]
Even zombies need to sleep (7/22/11)
The Eternal Need to Rest Rob Zombie doesn’t want to sleep again. Ever. The creator of “The Haunted World of El Superbeasto,” front man of the noise rock band “White Zombie,” and director of “House of a 1000 Corpses”, its sequels “the Devil’s Rejects”, no less than two Halloween movie sequels and the classic Grindhouse […]
Controlling weight and diabetes requires real rest (5/9/11)
It’s No Fun to Fight the System “I’m sleeping less than I ever have and that’s gonna make me gain weight? You’re kidding! I have to use more energy to stay awake, so how does that cause weight gain?” I hear similar stories most days. It’s time for people to look at how their bodies […]