Prettier Skin, A Clearer Head And 8 Other Perks To A Good Night's Sleep

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Prettier Skin, A Clearer Head And 8 Other Perks To A Good Night's Sleep By this point, we all know the very serious health conditions associated with long-term sleep deprivation, including increased risk of heart disease and stroke. In fact, here on HuffPost Healthy Living, we've even questioned if sleep deprivation could be this generation's tobacco in terms of serious health concerns. At the most basic level, we know we feel better after a good night's sleep. But the truth is that sometimes, when you're contemplating staying out an extra hour with friends or answering one last group of emails, we can forget how important it is to prioritize our rest. So we rounded up a few more immediate benefits to getting a good night's sleep, from sharper organization skills to a better sex life. What's The Healthiest County In Your State? Color Me Creative: Study Says Green Sparks Inventiveness 'The Drop 10 Diet': 10 Stay-Slim Tips For Life Bringing Your Dog To Work Could Help To Lower Stress BLOG POSTS David Katz, M.D.: Pink Slime And Beyond: 5 Implications Pink slime happens to have been outed. But what other things that you never knew you never knew were in your food are still finding their way into you, and your kids? Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW: 3 Places To Find Peace Every Day Remember that you do have time, every day, to relax and cultivate peace. Let your everyday activities prompt these calming practices, and your old patterns of stressful thinking will begin to change for the good. Karen Horneffer-Ginter, Ph.D.: Why We Stink At Taking Breaks I wish we could start a cultural movement to reclaim the power of the break. For starters, it might help to recognize that by definition, a break is supposed to happen between things, just as a page break is inserted right within a book's content. John Elder Robison: Living With Autism: The Challenge Of Finding Challenging Work How does an autistic person establish himself or herself in a satisfying career? That's the challenge we all face, and the degree to which we succeed varies quite widely.

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