That's Fit

For several days now, I've been writing an ongoing series of diet and fitness posts titled "Why the Pounds Are Sticking Around," which are a collection of tips sourced from the health magazine Self. Since the response has been so positive, I decided to forge ahead with an idea I had for a series of healthy living posts. Since exercise and training are more my forte, I sought out information from an outside source -- Men's Health magazine. To that end, I found ten great health and wellness tips that I thought would be perfect for pieces on healthy living.

So, just as I have been doing with the diet and fitness posts, I will also be posting one healthy living tip per day as part of a series I think I'm going to call "Living Well." I think you'll find these tips to be as interesting and as helpful as I did.

Healthy Tip #2 - Sleep the right amount each night

Time and time again, we hear about the importance of getting around 7 hours of sleep each night. Failure to do so, as numerous studies have shown, can increase your risk of a host of maladies. But, did you ever wonder if it's possible to sleep too much?

It's quite possible, say researchers from the University of Warwick Medical School in England. The British researchers found that individuals who increased the number of hours they slept per night from seven to eight hours or more were more than twice as likely to die from non-cardiovascular disease within 11-17 years as those who kept sleeping for seven.

The takeaway, so it would seem, is to make sure you're catching your Z's, but to not become a permanent fixture on your bed.