Last week we talked about the benefits of better sleep, which is great and all, but how do you actually do it? How do you start getting better sleep today and thus reap the rewards? I have 12 simple, straight-forward tips to get you sleeping better starting tonight! Don’t drink caffeine after midday. If you need caffeine after midday, then you’re probably sleep deprived. Reign in the caffeine early and you’ll get to sleep sooner, solving the real problem. Exercise. Exer

Kids never want to go to sleep. Or at least mine don’t. When they were younger especially, I would tell them, ‘I wish someone would make me eat and make me go to bed at a decent hour’. There’s a point in life when our rational mind takes over and we decide sleep is good and we want it. For me, this flip happened when I started working a summer job in late high school and early college. I had to get up at (to me) an ungodly hour and that was all it took! Sleep w as offic

Did you know that only 13% of Americans get enough fruits each day? How about that only 8% of us get enough vegetables on a daily basis?! This is scary to me. If we’re not eating at least 1.5-2 cups of fruits and 2-3 cups of vegetables daily, then what are we eating? Usually highly processed (i.e., it doesn’t look like it grew somewhere) foods that are high in calories and low in nutrients. There are four main reasons for our now predisposed eating habits: processed food

Stress. Let’s face it. We all have it. The people who don’t read this article are simply in denial or aren’t ready to face it. Stress is the kudzu that looks pretty benign at first,but then takes over everything. It grows out of control. This can lead to adrenal fatigue, which we’ll get in to through a future column. We need to figure out how to become more aware of it in order to address it head on. Stress comes in many forms…be prepared – I’m about to mention some exa