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Sleep and Your Health
Here is a little nugget on sleep: Turns out if you don’t hit at least 6 hours a night, you significantly increase your chances (almost 5x!) of developing impaired fasting glucose, a “strong predictor of who will develop type 2 diabetes.” Prior finding have shown that this finding is consistent with prior study results, which suggested that chronic short sleep was linked with an “…increased risk for other adverse health effects including obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and death.” This may seem pretty basic, everyone knows that sleep is good for you; now you know what can happen if you don’t make it a priority.
The good news? There is no statistical significance between those that get 6 hours and those that get 8+, so hit the sack at 11:30 and you will be ready to get some at 6 am!
Family Practice News: Sleep and Diabetes
Diets: Word From the Doctor-folk
Yet another article for your reading pleasure pimped from American Family Physician: Commercial Diets and Cardiovascular Disease
No specific mention of paleo in here, but for our purposes it is closest to the mediterranean diet. Post thoughts to comments!
Green tea: the new red wine
Here is an article Brittany found in one of her medical journals: AmFam Green Tea Article. A bit dry and drawn out; but doctors are not known for their skills with prose…
Synopsis: Green tea is definitely not bad for you, and it may have some pretty significant benifits: as an anti-cancer drug (due to the antioxidants), it may give cardiovascular benefits, as well as help lower cholesterol and act as an appetite suppressant (good for weight loss), and it may even help with genital warts (you know who you are). So, read the article, there will be a quiz on monday.
WOD 4.13.2009
“Give Diane A Ring”
21/15/9
Deadlift 225/135
RPSU
Top Male: Jeff 5:15*
Top Female: Mandy 6:28
Coaches: Derek 3:08, Jonathan 4:03
*not Rx
Breakies!
What do you eat for breakfast? Here was mine this morning: 3 eggs, some avocado, cheddar cheese, strawberries, and coffee. You have heard this before, and it is true: breakfast is the most important meal of the day- take the time to do it right!
tasty.
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