Lesson 7: Sleep and Relapse Prevention - Slide 30
A Review Of Simple Ways To Improve Sleep:
- 2. Eat a balanced low fat diet
- A low fat diet reduces depression and enhances mental wellbeing
- Eat 3 meals each day regularly
- Eat the evening meal at least 2 hours before bedtime
- Low blood sugar can disturb sleep, so light late night snacks of oranges, bananas, milk or toast may aid sleep
- Avoid alcohol
Notes:
Page 94 to 125, The Healing Power of Sleep, How to Achieve Restorative Sleep Naturally, Simon and Schuster 1997, Sheila Laverty.Sleep and the Immune System is good Health Health Mediated by Brain-Mind States? From the WWW. & reprinted with permission from The Chemistry of Conscious States: How the Brain Changes its Mind, Little Brown, J. Allan Hobson,1994