Good night the sleep doctor's 4-week program to better sleep and better health

A sleep consultant draws on cutting-edge information to present an accessible reference to sleeping well, citing the role of sleep deprivation in such health concerns as poor eating, aging, and growth and outlining a twenty-eight-night program for addressing short-term sleep problems.

Main Author: Breus, Michael.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • How sleep deprived are you, and what does that mean?
  • The 3 most troublesome culprits in disordered sleep and how to conquer them
  • Anxiety and stress: sleep killers
  • Caffeine
  • Your gender
  • 3 people who steal your sleep and how to manage them
  • You as mom or dad: balancing the act
  • Your bed partner: 1 bed, 2 sleepers
  • Business traveler: stress, performance, jet lag, and other demands
  • From waistlines to face lines: you are what you sleep: Snooze to lose: how sleep affects weight loss
  • Sleep: the medicine necessary for good sex and a powerful co-partner with exercise
  • Naps, siestas & kips
  • 28 nights to sound sleep forever: Week 1: Your sleep boot camp
  • Week 2: review, rework, revive
  • Weeks 3 & 4: Setting it all in motion
  • The sleep aid industry: What you want to know about pills, sleep aids, & other potential hazards to sound sleep
  • Sleep diary.