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Feeling Sleepy? 19 Good Reasons to Nap
Sleep is good for you. It helps form memories, repair cells, and regulate hormones. So it makes sense that naps would be good for you, right? Right.
According to Sara Mednick, PhD, a sleep medicine researcher at the University of California at San Diego and author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life, a nap of 20 to 90 minutes before 4 pm will do all sorts of good stuff for your health. In fact, over at Best Health magazine, Mednick has compiled a list of 19 really good things a nap can do for you.
If you don’t have the time to take a nap, then try to get the most out of each night’s sleep. Here’s our article on “Sleep Basics” from our November/December 2009 issue (on newsstands now)!
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