Get Rid of Unhealthy Sleep Habits
December 8, 2008 by rainier
A healthy body depends upon three things namely- food, workout (including games and sports) and rest i.e. sleep. These three ingredients of healthy body are the base of healthy life for young children because the body that the young boys and girls get in their young age help them to coop with the difficult days of life which they face later on in their life.
So not sleeping enough and not sleeping well is not OK. As a matter of fact, there is quite a price to pay. It may surprise you to learn that chronic sleep deprivation, for whatever reason, significantly affects your health, performance, safety, and pocketbook.
That said, let’s look at the consequences of sleep deprivation.
* Decreased Performance and Alertness: Sleep deprivation induces significant reductions in performance and alertness. Reducing your nighttime sleep by as little as one and a half hours for just one night could result in a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32%.
* Memory and Cognitive Impairment: Decreased alertness and excessive daytime sleepiness impair your memory and your cognitive ability — your ability to think and process information.
* Stress Relationships: Disruption of a bed partner’s sleep due to a sleep disorder may cause significant problems for the relationship (for example, separate bedrooms, conflicts, moodiness, etc.).
* Poor Quality of Life: You might, for example, be unable to participate in certain activities that require sustained attention, like going to the movies, seeing your child in a school play, or watching a favorite TV show.
* Occupational Injury: Excessive sleepiness also contributes to a greater than twofold higher risk of sustaining an occupational injury.
* Automobile Injury: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates conservatively that each year drowsy driving is responsible for at least 100,000 automobile crashes, 71,000 injuries, and 1,550 fatalities.
In order to gain a good sleep, please note and get rid of below unhealthy sleeping habits.
1, go to sleep with makeup
Some women, particularly young women do not go to bed before the make-up remover. Residue on the skin of cosmetic plug the pores, resulting in sweat gland secretion of obstacles, not only likely to cause acne, but also a long time to skin damage to speed up the pace of aging.
2, to wear to bed accessories
Some women do not go to bed when unloading pick accessories, is very harmful to the body. Some jewelry is made of metal, long-term wear some wear and tear on the skin, people unknowingly toxic reaction. There are a number of luminous effect of the jewelry will have a radioactive radiation, although weak, but the amount accumulated for a long time can lead to adverse consequences. Wearing jewelry is not conducive to sleep metabolism, which is to wear jewelry of local aging of the skin easily.
3, to fall asleep after drinking
With the change in the way of life, now young women are more abundant night life, especially professional women, more entertainment, often accompanied by sleep Weizui. According to medical studies have shown that drinking before going to bed to sleep easy after the emergence of suffocation, in general about twice every night, each time for about 10 minutes of suffocation. So for a long time, people susceptible to diseases such as heart disease and high blood pressure.
4, hooded sleeping
Some people love to sleep hooded, especially in the winter. Due to poor ventilation, the nest was not sufficient oxygen, the body organs do not receive adequate oxygen supply, people will wake up feeling dizziness, chest tightness, fatigue, Jingshenbuzhen can also be induced dream, but often a nightmare Again and again, people easily awakened from the dream.
5, parents and children with sleep
Parents and young children with sleep, often in the middle of their children, parents, the results of the emission of “smoke” on both the children and easy to make children less oxygen, the emergence of unstable sleep, nightmares, or the middle of the night crying.
6, on behalf of clothing to be
A cold winter night, and some parents fear their children catch cold catch cold, often to the children wearing sweaters, vests, such as cotton or Maoku sleep. People sleep in the trunk, limbs, muscle is relaxed, and sleep more soundly, the more muscle relaxation. Children through more clothes to bed, will affect the whole body to relax muscles, is not conducive to blood circulation and respiratory function. Children clothing as a result of pressure wrapped the nightmare prone, so asphyxiating night terrors such as the occurrence of the disease. Due to excessive clothing, high-temperature, Han Shi Yi clothes, the children woke up after the failure to timely replacement of Shi Yi and add clothing as to cause a cold.
sleep is very essential . You have to take care of yourself.