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Stop giving out unsolicited, ignorant, mistargeted medical advice.
Addicted people—-including food addicts—-never want to hear the truth. And the pro-obesity movement costs society greatly.
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Do you drink coffee?
Yes I do. But I have my last cup at around 2 or 3pm. I noticed that if I drink coffee after 5pm, it could affect my sleep if I do not workout. You think coffee in the early afternoon could affect sleep?
Apart from quantity, quality of sleep is also important. I just realized how much a little light can disturb sleep. My blinds are opaque but hung 1-2 cm from the window frame, letting in just a few unwanted photons. I temporarily taped the blinds to the frame, leaving the room in almost complete darkness. I haven't felt this rested in years. Do try this at home!
I've never understood how this could be the case, evolutionarily speaking. Even in the absence of electrical light, there is rarely complete darkness. Did our remote ancestors just sleep extremely poorly whenever there was a lot of moonlight?
We have had industrial shift hours for nearly two centuries, and before that in the Army and Navy. Yet large organizations are still implementing new shift/watch schedules to (or sometimes purportedly to) improve health and alertness based on scientific results. https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2016/10/28/this-lif... What is the problem with science here? Without being an expert it seems like there are three…
4) No one gives a shit about the long term health effects. There are lots of pieces of knowledge that have obvious practical implications that aren’t acted upon because it’s inconvenient and the function of a system is different from what people say it’s for. School is more childcare than education and using the same buses for elementary and high school is cheaper so all high school students are sleep deprived and le…
I agree though about school being at least half to keep the kids locked up and out of the way for most of the day.
People care about long term health impacts.