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Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Sleep on the Road

Brian Yalung — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:25:27 +0000

How Miley Cyrus can sleep when she is on the road is a mystery and the singer-actress claims it is her way of fending off jetlag. While this is understandable, her solution to so-called jetlag seems to be something she may want to reconsider.

For one, sleep is where she gets her energy from and while she does try to make up for it when does get back home, the wear and tear of sacrificing sleep will sooner or later catch up with her. At 17 years old this may not be felt but rest assured that not sleeping to fight of jetlag will start to set in as she grows older.

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Managing Jetlag through Food Intake

Brian Yalung — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:10:23 +0000

For most people who have to travel a lot, you will certainly stumble into certain periods where you have to adjust to the time zone of a certain country. For some countries like traveling from the Philippines to the United States, there are varying differences in time like 12 hours of difference.

In these cases, you will often find yourself supposedly sleeping at their peak time to which you have to adjust because your body will not be able to take it for sure. However, one element in all of this can make a difference and this has to do with the food and meals that this voyager would take in between the time shifts.

“A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to engage this new clock,” says Prof Saper, who did the work with Drs Patrick Fuller and Jun Lu.

“So, in this case, simply avoiding any food on the plane, and then eating as soon as you land, should help you to adjust – and avoid some of the uncomfortable feelings of jet lag.”

The next time you have to adjust your sleeping period, consider the meals you take. A small fasting sacrifice can really make a difference.

(Source) Telegraph.co.uk

Jetlag 7 for On-the-Go Travelers

Brian Yalung — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:00:58 +0000

The need to adjust with time zones for people who have to travel a lot is a key contributor towards getting proper sleep. At times, adjustments to the body clock may become a pain since change in time zones will require people to sleep at unusual times that are not normal to them.

Jetlag 7 which is only available in Canada, offers to shrug off fatigue for people on the go. A big help for the sleep traveler among us.

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Dealing with Jet Lag

Brian Yalung — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:49:41 +0000

People on the go who have to travel from one place to another and has to deal with different time frames will always have a bout with jetlag. It is something that occupational people such as flight attendants, pilots and stewardess since they have to fly to different time zones most of the time.

Kate Bohner explains in depth the effects of jetlag and how such a problem contributes to sleep problems we have today.

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