Too Little Sleep
Happy New Year's Eve! 🎉
In today's issue:
- Too little sleep linked to shorter lifespan.
- A short alcohol break lets the body recover.
- Three out of four adults could be unknowingly obese.
Too Little Sleep
If you’re not sleeping enough, you could be quietly shaving years off your life.
A new study found that short sleep is strongly linked to lower life expectancy. If we're consistently getting under seven hours of sleep, we could be more likely to die earlier, no matter how we eat or exercise.
Could be time to wave goodbye to doom scrolling in the AMs, and finally learning work-life balance in 2026.
Seems like protecting seven hours a night could add real time back to our lives.
30 Days Without Alcohol
Just one month without alcohol can improve sleep, lower blood pressure, reset blood sugar, help the liver heal, boost mood, and sharpen the brain.
It's New Year's Eve. Imagine how I felt writing this.
Hard to admit that the drinks we think are normal may be quietly aging us, wrecking sleep, stressing our organs, and slowing our metabolism every single week.
We have to face it, alcohol makes our liver work overtime, it disrupts sleep, spikes inflammation, and messes with blood sugar and hormones. But when we stop for a few weeks, the body finally gets time to repair and reset instead of just coping.
Unknowingly Obese?
Under an updated definition, more than 75% of American adults are now obese. Not because we suddenly gained weight overnight, but because doctors stopped relying only on Body Mass Index.
The new definition looks at waist size and where fat is stored, not just weight and height like BMI. If you carry fat around your belly, you can now be considered obese even if the scale says you’re normal.
For decades, millions of us were told we're fine because BMI missed what was happening inside our bodies. Now, three out of four adults qualify under the new standard.
Watch out, you could be obese and not know it.
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