Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival

by T. S. Wiley
Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival  
published February 27th 2001 by Atria
binding Paperback
isbn 0671038680   (isbn13: 9780671038687)
pages 368
description <CENTER>When it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, everything you believe is a lie.</CENTER>

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Angela
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So far, this researcher from the Sansum Medical Research Institute in Santa Barbara has some incrdeible theories connecting Americans' sleep-deprivation habits, carbohydrate over-consumption, and prevelant major diseases. It's an evolutionary prespective on how the light bulb has lead us away from our circadian rhythms and consequently caused every major illness we humans suffer from.

I don't particularly care for her crude writing style, but I think everyone should check out her arguments (s...more
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Robert
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I gave this book 5 stars because it has really made me think about the way I'm treating my body. You always hear from people that you should get more sleep but I'm willing to bet most people have just a rough understanding of why. A couple reasons why this book might be tough to read:

- The writing style has been commented on by other readers, the author can sometimes be offensive or crude but honestly I think that everyone should be able to look past this. It could have been done a different...more
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Lena
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Lights out addresses the subject of the harm Americans are doing to their health by sleeping too little, sleeping in incomplete darkness, and eating as if summer went on all year long. It is not a pretty picture. Because the body is complex, it is also a rather complex picture. The authors give a great deal of scientific evidence to back up their assertions (half the book is bibliography) and they make a good case for getting more sleep in a well-darkened room. My strongest reason for not givi...more
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Dave
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03/27/07

This book makes an overwhelming case that modern technology is disrupting humanity's sleep. They really flog it way beyond necessity. I can sum their arguments as such:
- If you need an alarm to wake up in the morning, then what you really need is more sleep.
- Sleep somewhere that's as dark and quiet as possible.
- Try to limit your exposure to strong lighting before you go to bed.
- Some people need more sleep, some less. Get as much as your body needs, don't rely on some other made-up sta...more
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