No Surprise! People aren't getting enough sleep. Everyone talks about how tired we are and how we need to get more sleep, but how do we get it. For starters we can take a look at our daily schedules to see if there is anything keeping us from the amazing thing we call sleep. Below is an simple sketch of my schedule stating the majority of what I am doing from 1:00 in the morning to 12:00 at night. Not much surprised me. Everyone is always shocked when I say I go to bed at 8:30, (More like 8:45), but even with what looks to be 10 hours of sleep I often feel like I don't get enough. When you break it down it takes about five minutes to get to bed, about an hour of just lying there waiting for my brain to slow down enough to sleep, and on bad nights who knows how many times I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night for any number of reasons. I understand why its hard for people to get to sleep. It doesn't take much to keep me up at night. So how can we help people like that, how do people get the much needed sleep they need. According to the article some foods can help you with this. Before bed if you're going to eat anything eat something like egg whites, chicken, granola, or whole-grain crackers with milk. These foods are high in tryptophan and melatonin which are things found in these foods that help induce sleep.
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