Thanks Ginny! I am going to do a book search and see if I can get this book through library loan. I have been wanting to read it for quite some time, as it makes sense to me. Whenever I feel stressed/drained, getting more than my usual 7 hours of sleep usually refreshes me. If I don't I tend to get sick. --Liz Butek-Beasley > >The book, "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival", by T.S. Wiley is >concerned with the need for adequate sleep, Paleo sleep, as it were, in >accordance with the length of light and dark periods through the seasons. >The author demonstrates that there are many, many metabolic processes vital >to health performed in appropriately long, dark sleep periods. Thusly, our >modern life by artificial light mimics the longest days of summer, and >keeps us stuck squarely in one season, the most wearing, >carbohydrate-laden, fat-storing one. This apparently affects our fat >metabolism, sex drive, cardiac and arterial disease, lipid levels, and >more, and keeps us from being able to recover during the sleep of the long >dark season. I found it very interesting, and directly relevant to Paleo >eating patterns. > >ginny and Tomo > >All stunts performed without a net! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com