13 Tricks To Maximize Your Sleep Efficiency
For the average working person, with work piling up and free time approaching zero, it is nearly impossible to get the recommended 10 hours of sleep. Because of this, in the United States alone, over 70 million people develop sleep-related problems. While many people recognize that sleep is important, they also believe that the only way to feel more rested is to increase the length of time they sleep.
However, this is not true - we can achieve better results by optimizing the short time that we do sleep. Getting 10 hours of sleep is impractical, but making the most of your 6 hours is not. Do you use these 13 tricks to help you sleep?
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Weightlifter Jang Mi-ran Sets New World Record With 717.2 Pounds
The Olympics shows some of the most muscular men (and women) I have ever seen. Speaking of muscular - have you seen female weightlifters? Jang Mi-ran won the female heavyweight snatch, clean and jerk in this year’s Olympics! The picture for this post does not show the massiveness of her body (and all the women she was competing with). FreeRepublic has more pictures of her, if you would like.
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9 Must-Have Travel Snacks
What foods do you bring when you travel?
Ever since the time I had to pay $4.00 for a bottle of water in Florida, I make sure to pack my own food at home instead of relying on the food prices of wherever I am travelling to. Diet Blog made a recent post on nine snacks people should bring on travels:
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Chocolate: Nutritious Or Unhealthy?
Do you love chocolate? I sure do, and the chocolate industry shows that you probably do, too. Chocolate manufacturing is a $13 billion business. Even though chocolate bars were produced over 100 years ago and is now sold nearly everywhere, many people do not know much about it.
- Where does chocolate come from?
- How is it made?
- Is it unhealthy?
- Should I be eating it?
For Night-Snackers: Does Eating Late Make You Gain Weight?
Of the sources of bad health information, I would not expect BBC News or About.com, but both of these otherwise highly credible websites have given wrong diet advice! They claimed that weight loss is only about calories, and that the time of day you eat is not important. Many people spread this claim as a “debunked myth,” when it is actually the myth itself. Learn a simple way to disprove it, and find out the real answer to whether eating at night leads to weight gain.
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4 Signs Of Bad Posture (And How To Fix It)
Your posture is important, not just for working out, but for regular activities like walking, standing or sitting. Most of your posture relies on your spine, which has three natural curves: one at your neck, another at your upper back, and another at your lower back. Keeping these three curves in proper alignment gives you equal weight balance, a confident appearance, and reduced risk of injury. Bad posture puts more weight on an area of your body than you should, straining your joints and muscles. Are you suffering from one of these four signs of bad posture?
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