Life Time

For most of us, exercise in some form can help sleep/wake timing and reduce insomnia, particularly if it is outside under natural light in the morning.

We all have to make choices and sometimes, as an adult, it may be a good idea to make those choices in the late morning rather than the late afternoon.

Sleep is a period of physical inactivity during which time an individual avoids movement within an environment to which it is poorly adapted, while using this time to undertake a range of essential biological activities that allow optimum performance during activity.64

Using such a device, blood glucose values for a healthy individual are under 6mmol/l before eating and below 7.8mmol/l two hours after a meal; an individual who has glucose intolerance will have glucose values between 6.0 and 7.0 mmol/l before a meal and between 7.9 and 11.0mmol/l two hours after it; and an individual with Type 2 diabetes will have

Today, the breakdown of the nuclear family, long commutes, irregular working times, increased night shift work, the pressures of school work and the availability of easy to prepare (e.g. microwaveable) highly processed food have all pushed the major sugar-rich meal of the day to an irregular mid- to late-evening time slot.

There is a real problem for those individuals who are ‘natural long sleepers’, needing nine hours or more of sleep each night.

Interestingly, dark chocolate may stimulate endocannabinoid activity.

The human stomach empties faster, after identical meals, in the morning than in the evening.

The bottom line is that for most of us the occasional nap is fine, but be careful you don’t become dependent upon long daytime naps.