Sleep & Rest, we cannot prosper without it.

Sleep & Rest, we cannot prosper without it.

SLEEP WELLNESS - TOP 10 BENEFITS

1. Keeps your Heart healthy - lack of sleep can worsen cholesterol and blood pressure.
2. May help in preventing cancer..... limiting light exposure through restful sleep can raise the body's melatonin level.
3. Reduces STRESS....sleep deprivation produces high blood presure and stress hormones.
4. Reduces Inflammation....Improves the body's immune system.
5. Makes you more ALERT....Sleep Wellness increases your energy the next day.
6. Bolsters MEMORY....DREAMS and achieving deep sleep are important for your brain to create MEMORY and link events.
7. May help in LOSING WEIGHT....lack of sleep affects the hormones that increase appetite.
8. Naps make you SMARTER....napping lowers stress and improves memory, cognitive function and mood.
9. Reduces risk of Depression....lack of sleep lowers serotonin levels which causes depression.
10. Helps the body rebuild....good sleep helps cells produce a protein that repairs damage that is caused by stress.

Invest in you and/or your familys wellness, sleep is not just a place where you get rest at night but a place where your body gets prepared for the next day so you can perform at the top of your ability. Children need it as much or more than adults. Think about it. HOW DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT ?

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10 Great Reasons to Wear a Helmet:

Helmet use saves lives

Increasing helmet use promoted as an effective method of reducing road injuries and deaths.......

10 Great Reasons to Wear a Helmet

1. There are 85 million bicycle riders in the US. Most of them will fall at some point.


2. 770 bicyclists died on US roads in 2006, down just 14 from the year before. Over 90 percent died in crashes with motor vehicles.


3. The "typical" bicyclist killed on our roads is a sober male over 16 not wearing a helmet riding on a major road between intersections in an urban area on a summer evening when hit by a car.


4. About 540,000 bicyclists visit emergency rooms with injuries every year. Of those, about 67,000 have head injuries, and 27,000 have injuries serious enough to be hospitalized.


5. Bicycle crashes and injuries are under-reported, since the majority are not serious enough for emergency room visits. 44,000 cyclists were reported injured in traffic crashes in 2006.


6. 1 in 8 of the cyclists with reported injuries has a brain injury.


7. Two-thirds of the bicycling deaths are from traumatic brain injury.


8. A very high percentage of cyclists' brain injuries can be prevented by a helmet, estimated at anywhere from 45 to 88 per cent.


9. Direct costs of cyclists' injuries due to not using helmets are estimated at $81 million each year.


10. Indirect costs of cyclists' injuries due to not using helmets are estimated at $2.3 billion each year!

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