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Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780671038687
ISBN: 0671038680
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: February 27, 2001
Publisher: Atria
Studio: Atria
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Editorial Review:
When it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, everything you believe is a lie.
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.
We all know we don't get enough sleep. What we don't know is that there is a killer connection between sleep, food, light, and health. And that when it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, you need to rethink everything you know. Based on years of research at the National Institute of Health, Kept in the Dark will tell you: -- Why weight-loss is as easy as the flick of a switch -- Why researchers can give mice cancer just by leaving the lights on -- Why exercise can really give you a heart attack -- Why Type II diabetes has increased four-fold and why you're next -- Why you're overproducing sex hormones but you're too tired to want sex -- Why infertility plagues Baby Boomers -- Why we're a Prozac Nation and still fight depression constantly -- Why you'll go the way of the dinosaurs if you don't eat and sleep in sync with the spin of the planet
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - bad pseudo-science
The concept for this book is intriguing. If the hypothesis is correct, it would be a most compelling idea for managing our health and emotions.
But... While the author repeatedly says "studies show," she never puts in the reference for *what* study. You can't search the sources. The apparent attitude is that repeating the same leap-of-faith associations many, many times will result in all of us accepting them to be true. Politicians do this regularly. So do used car salesmen. ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't Be Offended...
I gave this book 5 stars because it has really made me think about the way I'm treating my body. You always hear from people that you should get more sleep but I'm willing to bet most people have just a rough understanding of why. A couple reasons why this book might be tough to read:
- The writing style has been commented on by other readers, the author can sometimes be offensive or crude but honestly I think that everyone should be able to look past this. It could have been done a ... Read More
Rating:  - Some Good, Lots Bizarre, Some Dangerous
"Lights Out" advocates a high protein diet, and claims the drop in serotonin alleviates depression. They also claim the risk for kidney damage is remote even if you ate absolutely (no) carbohydrates for 7 months or longer. They also claim that a high carb diet causes muscle loss, yet in fact it is a high protein diet that causes muscle loss. They claim that the cause of depression, manic depression, and schizophrenis is simply from being out of light and dark rythm, and in fact that all mental illness ... Read More
Rating: - Extraordinarily plausible
This book makes sense - often tongue-in-cheek; the humor lightens the reading of it.
Good rational and theories - easy to read - not so easy to follow!
Rating: - AMAZING!
This book will simply blow your mind...it makes total sense why we are like we are today! So simple, yet none of this will you ever hear from your Doctor..you know that little nagging voice in your head that tells you when something is just not quite right..and your Doctor wants to write you a prescription for some pill that you know will only mask what you are feeling? Then you get home and think "who will listen to me?"
Well here are your answers! A book you will "devour"....because page after ... Read More
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