Eating Before Beditme !! ??
health, fitness, muscles, nutrition, sleep
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Eat no later than 2-3 hours before going to bed - especially carbs, late at night increases you fat stores. Eating high-glycemic carbs (pasta, potatoes, white rice, sugar, etc.) right before bed will spike your insulin levels and blunt nighttime HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE (HGH) production. Thats very bad because about 80% of this fat-burning, muscle building SUPER HORMONE is released during sleep. If you fast for 11 hours (8pm to 7am for instance) your body will begin burning fat around the 5th hour and continue until you wake up. If you're currently strength training to build muscle, a great end of the day meal is low fat cottage cheese (full of slowly digested (casien protein) with no sugar added fresh or canned fruit.
What and when you eat at the end of the day can have a large impact on your weight. If you eat the right thing at the right time you can actually lose weight while you sleep. Eat the wrong thing at the wrong time and you can plan on waking up with a little more body fat in the morning.
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on 8/7/2008
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BENEFITS of REM and Non-Rem SLEEP !!
sleep, health, fitness, muscle, dream
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Sleep is prompted by natural cycles of activity in the brain and consists of two basic states: rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, which consists of 4 Stages.
When you sleep, your body rests and restores its energy levels. Sleep is an active state that affects both your physical and mental well-being. A good nights sleep is often the best way to help you cope with stress, solve problems, or recover from illness.
During the deep stages of NREM sleep, the body repairs and regenerates tissues, builds bone and muscle, and appears to strengthen the immune system. As you get older, you sleep more lightly and get less deep sleep.
Usually, REM sleep occurs 90 minutes after sleep onset. The first period of REM typically lasts 10 minutes, with each recurring REM stage lengthening, and the final one may last up to an hour. In people without sleep disorders, heart rate and respiration speed up and become erratic during REM sleep. During this stage the eyes move rapidly in different directions.
Intense DREAMING occurs during REM sleep as a result of heightened brain activity, but paralysis occurs simultaneously in the major voluntary muscle groups. REM is a mixture of encephalic (brain) states of excitement and muscular immobility. For this reason, it is sometimes called PARADOXICAL SLEEP.
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on 7/8/2008
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