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| Some Sleep Required |
Sleep is very necessary for health. It is during sleep that
our body repairs. But sleep is not inactivity. During the down time our brain
is very much at work.
Most of us don’t get enough and suffer for it. It isn’t
something you can store up or catch up on. An acute lack of sleep damages our
brain, it seems.
Let me post something she records in the book. “Health is
deeply intertwined with culture: what we eat, how active we are, how much we
sleep,” says US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy.
This book is on a very important subject.
Huffington divides her book in two parts. Part one is six
chapters covering the basics- the problem and the work of the brain during
sleep. I found her chapter on the purpose of the dream state to be informative.
The second part is concerning what is being done to answer
the dilemma.
The first 286 pages are the text. The next 105 contain the three
appendixes, the acknowledgements, the notes and the index.
Back in April 2015 I reviewed Huffington’s “Thrive.” This is
a much better book, in my opinion. It should be read by all people interested
in the subject, which should be everybody. It is that important.
This book was sent to me without charge by Blogging for Books.Com
for the purpose of this review. All opinions are those of the reviewer and not
those of the publisher.
The publisher is Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown
Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
