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Tips for better sleep: infographic
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Tips for better sleep: infographic

A few weeks ago I shared some tips on how to improve the quality of your sleep. I realise I gave quite a lot of tips and so I have pulled them together in an overview infographic. I hope this will help you scan over the various strategies you can try to improve your sleep, and select one or two to give a go. (Of course, nothing stopping you trying them all!)

Sleep is such a cornerstone to health, and so well worth spending some time on! I often joke that sleeping is a hobby of mine, I like it so much! And who doesn’t enjoy a good nights sleep? I hope this infographic will help give you the tools you need for a better nights sleep.

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Strategies for getting more and better sleep
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Strategies for getting more and better sleep

Where sleep is concerned, for many people there is room for improvement! As we all will have experienced, poor sleep can leave you feeling fuzzy headed, easy to annoy and low in energy. Beyond this extended periods of poor sleep can feed in to poor health such as through promoting weight gain, insulin resistance, reduced immunity and increased inflammation.

But the good news is there are many strategies you can try to improve your sleep. Some of these suggestions may also sound obvious - don’t dismiss these ones, sometimes the simplest changes can have the greatest results.

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Why sleep is important for your health
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Why sleep is important for your health

In my last post I discussed how what you eat can effect the quality of your sleep, and how the quality of your sleep can influence what you eat! Quite a circular topic, I know!

In this post I want motivate you to take good care of your sleep. We all know how we feel after a bad nights sleep. Irritable, fatigued, mentally slower… sound familiar? But your sleep, and the quality of the sleep you get over a prolonged period of days, weeks, months and years can have a profound impact on your health.

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The links between diet and sleep, and sleep and diet
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The links between diet and sleep, and sleep and diet

When people visit a nutritional therapist, they expect the conversation to just focus on what they are eating, what they are not eating, and what they should be eating! So when the discussion turns to sleeping patterns and quality of sleep this can come as a surprise.

Actually sleep, and getting good sleep, is more connected to your diet and than you might think…

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