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How to Solve Your Problems While You Sleep

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  • January 28, 2011

Dream Doctor Kelly Sullivan Walden has some thoughts on how important dreams and dream recall can be to your health.

It doesn’t seem so strange that most artists I know are avid dreamers. Perhaps by virtue of their profession (and ability to wake up leisurely in the afternoon without the blaring sounds of an alarm) they have a natural respect for dreams. However, it is the logical people in my life — the math professors, accountants, lawyers, and suit-and-tie wearing professionals who get up at the crack of dawn with an earth-shattering alarm who don’t seem to recall their dreams, nor do they seem to put much stock in them.

But we all dream, and we all have problems. In fact, one way of looking at life is that it is a constant stream of problems to solve (or, for the Pollyannas of the world, we call them “opportunities”). And don’t we all want to be better problem solvers? Wouldn’t being an expert problem solver make even the most logic-based among us more peaceful and productive? … More »

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How to Solve Your Problems While You Sleep

Smoking, Overeating, Not Sleeping or Exercising? 4 Health Do-Over Solutions


Smokes, burgers, no exercise, not enough sleep. While you can’t exactly undo the damage you so deftly did yesterday, you can lessen some of the negative effects. Here are four ways to kick your bad habits and avoid a total health hangover. We call do-overs.

You had the double-bacon-cheeseburger-with-fries special.

One burger every now and then isn’t going to do any damage. Not much, anyway. In a study at the University of Miami, men and women who ate just one high-fat meal had an 81% increase in artery-clogging triglycerides and damage to blood vessels a few hours later. So imagine what happens when you repeatedly go cheeseburger-crazy. … More »

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Smoking, Overeating, Not Sleeping or Exercising? 4 Health Do-Over Solutions

5 Lazy Ways to Be Healthier Right Now (Sleep! Gossip! Drink Wine!)


In a world where it seems like almost everything has the potential to be bad for us, staying healthy can often feel like a full-time job. Luckily, a lot of lazy things you already do during a normal day may have some surprisingly awesome health benefits. Here are five pleasant surprises:

7:30 a.m.: Sleep Through Your Alarm

So you didn’t hear your alarm and woke up a full 47 minutes after it went off. Here’s some good news: You’ll be more refreshed than someone who pressed the snooze button. In fact, whoever came up with the old “you snooze, you lose” saying must have been a reformed snooze-button addict, because it is scarily spot-on. When you hit “snooze,” you lose out on quality sleep – which, according to sleep researchers, is just as important as quantity. Hitting “snooze” every seven to nine minutes means that the sleep you’re getting isn’t providing much benefit, because it’s not enough time to get in and out of recharging REM sleep. So staying in bed for that extra hour doesn’t help refresh you. At all. … More »

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5 Lazy Ways to Be Healthier Right Now (Sleep! Gossip! Drink Wine!)

Give Up Your Shower and BPA Gets the Boot: Morning News Round-Up


How Does — Giving up your daily shower sound? (via The Guardian)

Exercise — To protect yourself from colds. (via BBC News)

What to Blame — For your sleeplessness. (via CNN Health)

BPA Gets the Boot — From several major manufacturers. (via The Independent) … More »

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Give Up Your Shower and BPA Gets the Boot: Morning News Round-Up