内容説明
"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 ofus can afford to miss. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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Book Description
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.
--このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
著者について
著者略歴 (「BOOK著者紹介情報」より)
カリフォルニア州サンタバーバラのサンサム・メディカル・リサーチ・インスティテュートの研究者。同研究所は糖尿病における最先端の研究で知られる。人類学者でもあり、目下の研究主題は、内分泌学/進化生物学である
フォーンビー,ベント
カリフォルニア州サンタバーバラのサンサム・メディカル・リサーチ・インスティテュートの研究者。生化学、生物物理学、分子生物学の博士号をもつ。両者は共同で国内外の医学学会や科学雑誌で発表をおこなっている
二上 薫
石川県生まれ。東京の大学を卒業後、音楽・映画・心理学など、ノンフィクションの翻訳に携わる(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)
