Show Diet Foils Insomnia By KORDEL Millions of men and women are tortured by Are you one of those who must resort to various means-f ram counting sheep to the taking of sleeping pills to secure your needed TO SEE your night's rest snatched from your face the approach of a hard day-without any rest-is torture That Is when I beheld the deep hollow eye sockets and the mass of strain lines on the face of I was not surprised to hear her tried everything to get to SHE WAS a woman in her but her older appearance was living proof of an incessant battle with I could see she had fallen into psychological reliance on drugs to put her to a reliance that often results in a form of chronic a continuous ITS symptoms are poor speech and damage to blood In most sleeplessness can be traced to years of inadequate I explained to M she would have to eat certain foods to build up the deficiency that was robbing her of SLEEPING is controlled by a complex center in the very depths of the and is regulated by the It is the magic plumbing blood takes care of all BUT IT cannot the if there is nothing to if nutritional deficiencies have depleted body Before the brain's sleep can produce the bloodstream must enough calcium and lactic WHY IS it that after a day spent in the outdoors you fall asleep as soon as your head touches the the sunshine and fresh air induce But even more j physical w releases calcium and acid the PROMOTING the blood's sleep chemistry with mineral-rich foods and supplements is the safe way to restore permanent function of the natural sleep you were born To improve her run-down I recommended she drink a quart of buttermilk Because of its high lactic-acid buttermilk is an especially good promoting digestion of proteins and iron-containing DONT overlook the importance of buttermilk as you grow It is a source of calcium and lactic acid that has a direct bearing on For normal daily an glassful is Out of patients in a New York only two had adequate Henry C. Sherman of Columbia University percent of people are starving for lean meat are animal foods which furnish Vegetables rich in calcium cabbage dried navy string radishes brown wheat and dandelion THE FOLLOWING when I again saw she happily told sleep so soundly now I don't even hear the children come While M. needed only a change in her diet to corret other sleep-seekers have troubles because they do not prepare themselves for TOO MUCH ordinary table salt can upset the sleep chemistry to such an extent that it causes a high degree of nervous in results in In a highly revealing experiment conducted by Michael M. Miller of patients were treated merely by reducing the amount of salt in the Within a week patients on the low-salt diet were able to fall asleep within 15 BEST of most of them slept through the Although not most chronic complainers usually exaggerate their Fretting over loss of sleep is worse than the loss of sleep Mental rest during the hours of nightly relaxation is as important as physical SLEEP Is needed by the body to rebuild cells and energy to use Sleep-inducing nutrients are necessary in your body to pull down the day's signifying conscious performance is Welcome sleep with the right diet and mental you-will vanquish this enormous limiter of your normal |