Wednesday, September 1, 2010

GET SOME SLEEP:
Luckily one thing I've never suffered from is insomnia:
"Insomnia kills. That’s the central finding of a large study looking at men who complained of chronic insomnia and slept fewer than six hours a night.  Men with insomnia were more than four times as likely to die as “good sleepers” during the 14-year study, published Wednesday in the journal Sleep.  Add hypertension or diabetes, and men with insomnia were seven times as likely to die as those not suffering from sleep problems, the study found.  “We were expecting to find something, but we were surprised by the magnitude of the findings,” said lead investigator Dr. Alexandros N. Vgontzas, a professor of psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine and Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.  Self-reported chronic insomnia plus lack of sleep among women did not result in more deaths among women."

So do your best to try and get a good sleep...

ANYONE INTO YOGA?
If you are, you won't believe one of the new trends out there among yoga enthusiasts, especially given the hot summer we've had around this country:
"The last thing many Americans crave in late summer is a heated room.  But in pursuit of a yoga trend that promises mental and physical benefits, many are packing into scorching, humid studios, where the temperature is elevated to 95 degrees or higher.  Some traditional yoga teachers believe heated rooms can hurt the practitioner more than help. But hot-yoga enthusiasts say they have never felt so good: their backs have stopped hurting, they lose weight, digestion improves, and they have energy and vigor they had lacked for years."

Yoga is yet another way that persons with Moebius Syndrome--or anyone--can get fit.  And of course we're all in favor of getting fit.  But be careful about overdoing it or, in this case, getting overheated.  Dehydration or passing out aren't good things...

"My fears about speaking were considerable.  I thought that my difference separated me from others,that my face was an impediment, that it would be a reason for people to scorn me.  Amazingly, that fear turned out not only to be unfounded, but also to be the opposite of the truth.  What I feared is not unique to me alone, but totally human.  We all fear that we will be embarrassed, that we are not acceptable to others, that we will be rejected."--David Roche, THE CHURCH OF 80% SINCERITY.

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