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Interesting Facts

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If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.

The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Why Am I Always Tired?

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This article might help some……….

Why am I always tired is a question that is not asked enough! Most people accept they are tired due to work and family and never question if they can do anything about it.

So why am I tired all the time?

Try having a early night or have another cup of coffee is the usual response that most people will give if you state you are always tired. The one response that annoyed me was when someone responded with “I’ve always got load of energy” they just don’t understand how it feels!. The theory of having an early night may work if you think you are tired due to lack of sleep but if this is not the case then going to bed early could actually make you feel worse. And for the people who suggest more coffee, well they obviously don’t have a clue. Coffee is a stimulant so yes it will make you feel better, but only for about half an hour then you will come down with a bump! Filling your body with stimulants is not the answer and can cause long term damage!
Felling tired can be caused by a wide array of aspects in your life. Your health and day to day living are the main factors and there are many thing you can change:-

• Do you sleep through without waking or are you waking regularly?
• Are you over sleeping or under sleeping?
• Are you overweight or even underweight?
• What is your fitness level?
• Is stress or worry affecting your life?
• Do you have a solid relationship?
• Do you have young children to look after?
• Do you regularly drink too much coffee or energy drinks?
• Do you drink alcohol on a regular basis?
• Are you expecting too much of yourself?

How you are feel can be affect by any of these aspects so you need to think about when the tiredness started and try narrowing down your search for an answer. Unfortunately the arrival of a new baby in the house will bring tiredness for many years to come so you will have to live with it for a while but even then if you try to live in a healthy way the impact will be minimal.

If these things do not help then stop saying ‘Why am I tired all the time’ and take a look at our reccommendations which may help you not only get back on track but help put you ahead of the bunch! Or get more healthy living tips at To Get Healthy.

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Lack of sleep can affect learning

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BOSTON, — U.S. scientists have determined sleep deprivation impairs memory for subsequent experiences by altering the function of the hippocampus. Sleep researchers have known sleep occurring after an experience can be critical to learning and memory but in the new study Matthew Walker and colleagues at Harvard University Medical School found sleep before an experience is also
critical for the normal functioning of memory systems.The scientists deprived people of a night’s sleep and then asked them to observe and remember a large set of picture slides for a subsequent recognition test. Follow-
ing a full night’s sleep, the subjects were queried about the slides. The researchers found sleep-deprived subjects showed decreased activity in the hippocampus — a brain region important for memory — relative to control subjects who were not sleep-deprived while viewing the pictures; sleep-deprived people also had poorer subsequent recall abilities. The relationship of activation in other
brain areas to activation in the hippocampus was also altered, suggesting sleep deprivation alters memory-encoding strategies, the researchers reported. The study appears in the March issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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