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Sleep for Health
Medicine for Life
English - April 01, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBNutrition Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement lifestyle choices lifestyle medicine disease prevention diet education mental health physical activity physician dietitian Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Step 5: Sleep for Health
Today we are going to talk about sleep! Oh how I love sleep. I bet you do too. But I also bet (like me) you’ve chosen productivity over sleep at some point. LIkely more often than you’d like.. Today we’re talking about why sleep is so essential for our health.
Sleep Trends in the USSleep and our bodiesSleep and foodEffects of poor sleepHigh blood pressureDiabetesWeightCognitive difficultiesMoodTips for improving sleepSources
Kelly, J and Shull J. Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine: The Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Manual. 2nd Edition. American College of Lifestyle medicine. 2019.
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