Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival 
Lights Out
With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby deliver staggering findings: Americans really are sick from being tired. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in our population. We're literally dying for a good night's sleep.
Our lifestyle wasn't always this way. It began with the invention of the lightbulb.
When we don't get enough sleep in sync with seasonal light exposure, we fundamentally alter a balance of nature that has been programmed into our physiology since Day One. This delicate biological rhythm rules the hormones and neurotransmitters that determine appetite, fertility, and mental and physical health. When we rely on artificial light to extend our day until 11 PM, midnight, and beyond, we fool our bodies into living in a perpetual state of summer. Anticipating the scarce food supply and forced inactivity of winter, our bodies begin storing fat and slowing metabolism to sustain us through the months of hibernation and hunger that never arrive.
Our own survival instinct, honed over millennia, is now killing us.
Wiley and Formby also reveal:
That studies from our own government research prove the role of sleeplessness in diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, mental illness, and premature aging;
Why the carbohydrate-rich diets recommended by many health professionals are not only ridiculously ineffective but deadly;
Why the lifesaving information that can turn things around is one of the best-kept secrets of our day.
Lights Out is one wake-up call none of us can afford to miss.
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And to all of you health conscious runners out there - you'll be shocked to learn that you're training your body to be prey by filling your body up with the over production of cortisol (stress) which leads to heart issues ( Remember Frank Shorter).
Vegetarians beware - eating vegetables all year long keeps your body in "summer mode" which makes it insulin resistant. This is shown to be the reason for weight gain because your body thinks winter is coming. Winter being the months of little food over the ages. Extended insulin resistance reduces the immune defenses which lead to disease.
Remember, life is a mystery. Enjoy it! Never trust anything until you research it. Read this book at least two to three times. Its chuckfull of scientific information that's worth the time invested.
And on a political standpoint - support peace and the Constitution. Research 9/11, the Federal Reserve, the IRS, the North American Union proposals,etc.,etc.,etc....