Showing posts with label Healthy Sleeping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy Sleeping. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Diet to Follow to Improve Eye Sight

Close your eyes and imagine you have not seen ever since the world and yourself. You will not have a thought with what it looks like when you only feel it. Eyes are very vital for the human body. Eyes are the windows of the soul. A diet low in fat and rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains can pay benefits not only to your heart but to your eyes. Nutrients such as Vitamin C, omega-3 oils and key plant molecules are so important that you really can eat your way to better vision. 



  • Leafy greens 
Spinach, chard, kale, broccoli and sprouts are rich sources of two vital pigments - lutein and zeaxanthin - that are used by the retina at the back of the eye for clear vision.
  • Eggs 
Egg yolk is an added key source of the important eye pigments, lutein and zeaxanthin.
  • Bilberries 
Bilberries and blackberries are rich in anthocyanins that can prevent and slow blindness caused by macular degeneration and cataracts.
  •  Oily fish 
Omega-3 fats found in oily fish helps lower the risk of glaucoma and macular degeneration. Omega-3 fats may also protect from dry-eye syndrome.
  • Nuts and seeds 
Nuts and seeds are a rich source of Vitamin E, which may help prevent cataracts and other forms of blindness by protecting eye cells from UV damage.
  • Fresh fruit 
Vitamin C, reduce the risk of all leading eye diseases including macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Healthy Sleeping makek the man perfect

Healthy Sleeping
When you’re in a rush to meet work, school, family,or household responsibilities, do you cut back on your sleep? Like many people, you might think that sleep is merely a “down time” when the brain shuts off and the body rests. Think again.

What Is Sleep?

Sleep was long considered just a uniform block of time when you are not awake. Thanks to sleep studies done over the past several decades, it is now known that sleep has distinctive stages that cycle throughout the night. Your brain stays active throughout sleep, but different things happen during each stage. For instance, certain stages of sleep are needed for us to feel well rested and energetic the next day, and other stages help us learn or make memories. In brief, a number of vital tasks carried out during sleep help maintain good health and enable people to function at their best. On the other hand, not getting enough sleep can be dangerous—for example, you are more likely to be in a car crash if you drive when you are drowsy.

How Much Sleep Is Enough?

Sleep needs vary from person to person, and they change throughout the lifecycle. Most adults need 7–8 hours of sleep each night. Newborns, on the other hand, sleep between 16 and 18 hours a day, and children in preschool sleep between 10 and 12 hours a day. School-aged children and teens need at least 9 hours of sleep a night.

Some people believe that adults need less sleep as they get older. But there is no evidence to show that older people can get by with less sleep than younger people. As people age, however, they often get less sleep or they tend to spend less time in the deep, restful stages of sleep. Older people are also more easily awakened.

Why Sleep Is Good for You — and Skimping on It Isn’t

Does it really matter if you get enough sleep? Absolutely! Not only does the quantity of your sleep matter, but the quality of your sleep is important as well. People whose sleep is interrupted a lot or is cut short might not get enough of certain stages of sleep. In other words, how well rested you are and how well you function the next day depend on your total sleep time and how much of the various stages of sleep you get each night.

Performance: We need sleep to think clearly, react quickly, and create memories. In fact, the pathways in the brain that help us learn and remember are very active when we sleep. Studies show that people who are taught mentally challenging tasks do better after a good night’s sleep. Other research suggests that sleep is needed for creative problem solving.