2 Things That Hinder Proper Sleep

Many common chemicals affect both quantity and quality of sleep. These include caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and antihistamines, as well as prescription medications including beta blockers, alpha blockers, and antidepressants. 

But we are going to focus on these two for today.

Turning Night into Day & Reading Until Sleeping Hours:

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This turning night into day is a wretched, health-destroying habit, and this reading much by brain workers,

up to the sleeping hours, is very injurious to health. It calls the blood to the brain and then there is

restlessness and wakefulness, and the precious sleep, which should rest the body, does not come when

 Eating Before Bedtime:

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“In most cases, two meals a day are preferable to three. Supper, when taken at an early hour, interferes with the digestion of the previous meal. When taken later, it is not itself digested before bedtime. Thus the stomach fails of securing proper rest. The sleep is disturbed, the brain and nerves are wearied, the appetite for breakfast is impaired, the whole system is unrefreshed, and is unready for the day's duties.”

Reference:

(CD 176.1; 181.4

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