Sleep to be Sexy, Smart, & Slim
Get the Best Sleep of Your Life Tonight and Every Night
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Based on interviews with more than 100 of the country's top sleep experts, Sleep to Be Sexy, Smart, and Slim provides women with an understanding of the issues surrounding sleep and offers hundreds of solutions, tips, and strategies for dealing with their unique sleep challenges.
The book is organized into six sections:
* Introduction: Discusses how sleep affects every part of your life from sex to IQ to energy to aging.
* Part 1-Do You Have a Sleep Problem? Quizzes to let you determine your sleep style and how much sleep is enough.
* Part 2-Surefire Strategies for Getting a Good Night's Sleep: Solutions that are most appropriate for your sleep type. You'll be surprised at the number of things you can do to eliminate sleep interrupters.
* Part 3-Sleep Saboteurs: The most common sleep problems or challenges- with testimonials from women who share both their problem and personal tricks.
* Part 4-The New Meds: A thumbs up, thumbs down look at the new meds. Doctors are quick to prescribe sleep aids but that's a temporary fix. This section lists the top-selling sleeping pills and their sometimes bizarre side effects.
* Resources: Provides a state-by-state listing of sleep centers, websites, and helpful information.
The thoroughly researched, concise information in this book is written in a lively, engaging style and delivers the latest research solutions that will let every woman realize the book's promise: Get a good night's sleep, and you will feel sexier, smarter, and slimmer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Health writer Michaud (Total Health for Women) and Reader's Digest health director Bain make a convincing case for the serious impact sleep deprivation has on women's health-including weight gain, diminished libido, irritability and difficulty concentrating, not to mention potentially fatal effects like falling asleep at the wheel-and offer worthwhile advice on getting a full night's rest. Thirty pages of tips include strategies for slowing down and releasing stress (meditation and muscle relaxation rituals), food remedies both familiar (cookies and milk) and sophisticated (a high-carb meal four hours before bedtime), and a number of other suggestions: sleep in a cold bedroom, wear socks to bed, stay away from the computer as bed time nears (light from the computer monitor stimulates the brain and wakefulness). A long section looks at specific "sleep saboteurs" like menopause, pregnancy, depression, illness, nightmares and jet-lag, and a final section looks at medication, including the new generation of sleep aids (Ambien, Lunesta) and other classes (antidepressants, antihistamines) used for sleep. A directory of local resources completes this able one-stop reference aimed at women, but widely applicable to anyone suffering sleepless nights.
