Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and SurvivalSimon and Schuster, 2001 M02 27 - 368 páginas When it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, everything you believe is a lie. Lights Out With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby deliver staggering findings: Americans really are sick from being tired. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in our population. We're literally dying for a good night's sleep. Our lifestyle wasn't always this way. It began with the invention of the lightbulb. When we don't get enough sleep in sync with seasonal light exposure, we fundamentally alter a balance of nature that has been programmed into our physiology since Day One. This delicate biological rhythm rules the hormones and neurotransmitters that determine appetite, fertility, and mental and physical health. When we rely on artificial light to extend our day until 11 PM, midnight, and beyond, we fool our bodies into living in a perpetual state of summer. Anticipating the scarce food supply and forced inactivity of winter, our bodies begin storing fat and slowing metabolism to sustain us through the months of hibernation and hunger that never arrive. Our own survival instinct, honed over millennia, is now killing us. Wiley and Formby also reveal:
Lights Out is one wake-up call none of us can afford to miss. |
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE | 9 |
TWO | 25 |
PART II | 31 |
WE ARE NOT ALONE | 41 |
FOUR | 63 |
PART III | 75 |
SIX | 96 |
EIGHT | 138 |
NINE | 161 |
TEN | 197 |
ENDNOTES 207 | 255 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READING | 305 |
GLOSSARY | 313 |
343 | |
SEVEN | 117 |
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