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Sleep (deficit) built up over just five nights can significantly stress the heart

Many students believe that it's a "rite of passage" to stay up all night during college and that "it's kind of fun," Thacher says.

A study this summer in the journal SLEEP examined the heart conditions of 39 adults, ages 22 to 45, whose heart rates were tested twice — the morning after a 10-hour sleep and then again after five consecutive four-hour sleeps — using a portable monitor.

if you use all-nighters, your GPA is slightly lower on average,

"You can't do your best work when you're sleep-deprived

"It's not common knowledge, because if people understood how much of a difference (getting more sleep) could make athletically," they'd incorporate it more into their lives and not focus solely on nutrition and exercise.

In United States, farm animals outweigh their human brethren by a factor of four to one, effectively making the US "population” balloon from 295 million to 1.2 billion.

In Canada, farm animals also outweigh people by a factor of four to one. On a given day there are approximately 14.6 million beef and dairy cattle, 13 million pigs, 8 million turkeys, 96 million chickens, and 30 million people alive in Canada.3

do a few stretches to help prevent injury and soreness after your workout

do a vigorous period of which ever activity you choose for 30 seconds

really push the limits of what you can do

After the intense spurt take down the intensity level a few notches and exercise for roughly a minute and a half at this level

Continue this rotation for about 15-20 minutes, remembering to take about another 2 minutes to cool down and bring the heart rate back to normal

Using data from Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey, the researchers tracked 683 Canadian adolescents ages 12-15, who were interviewed twice a year until they were ages 24-27.

This is a critical period, as the changes in physical activity during the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood represents the most dramatic declines in physical activity across a person's life

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found the rate of decline in physical activity was greater for men than for women, who showed only a modest 1.7 per cent decrease in their overall activity levels

"It may be that girls experience the greatest declines in physical activity earlier in their adolescence

Calculate your BMR (basal metabolic rate).

alculate your activity level. For a week or so, keep an activity journal and use a calorie calculator to figure out how many calories you burn while sitting, standing, exercising, lifting weights, etc.

Keep track of how many calories you eat.

Add it up

Hitting the snooze button Get up 10 minutes early and go for a brisk walk (calories burned: 100)

Weight Management.

Better Skin Tone.

Increased Energy.

Individuals that eat the wrong foods or eat at the wrong times are always complaining of tiredness.

you will feel more energetic and in due course your rate of metabolism increases as well.

Protection from Diet-Related Disease.

effect of a healthy diet in the protection from diseases may not be immediately apparent.

In fact, you may never realize what health problems you may have developed had you not followed a healthy diet

useful in the management of adult onset diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure and high cholesterol as well as other health issues.

Better Sleep Patterns.

If you eat the right size portions of healthy foods at the right time

find that you tend to sleep better in the night since the body is not busy trying to digest and excrete toxins found in junk foods.

You will begin to feel much healthier in no time!

Can raise you metabolic rate

Decreases Risk of cardiovascular disease