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Morning blue light exposure improves sleep and activity levels in older adults

Morning blue light exposure improves sleep and activity levels in older adults

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Want to improve sleep and feel more active during the day? For older adults, the answer might be as simple as switching to blue-enriched light in the mornings. A recent study published in GeroScience shows that this type of light can positively influence the body’s natural rhythms, resulting in better sleep and increased daytime engagement for seniors at home. As people get older, their sleep patterns often change, and they may find it harder to get restful sleep. These changes can include sleeping less deeply, waking up more during the night, and feeling tired during the day. One reason for this is that as we age, our eyes become less effective at letting in light, which is important for regulating our body’s natural sleep-wake cycle. Think of our bodies as having an internal clock that is set by daylight. Reduced light input can weaken this clock, making it harder to maintain a consistent sleep schedule. Furthermore, older adults may spend less time outdoors in bright daylight and more time indoors under artificial light, which can also …

Things really do seem better in the morning, study suggests | Science, Climate & Tech News

Things really do seem better in the morning, study suggests | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Things, generally, “do seem better in the morning” – that is according to scientists who suggest the earlier hours of the day are when most feel at their best. Research using the University College London (UCL) COVID-19 Social Study found people also widely feel happier in the summertime than they do during the winter months. Using survey data from 49,218 adults between March 2020 and March 2022, the researchers found people generally woke up “feeling best” but were “feeling worst” by midnight. Dr Feifei Bu, from UCL’s department of behavioural science and health, said: “Our findings suggest that on average, people’s mental health and wellbeing are better in the morning and worst at midnight.” And writing in the journal BMJ Mental Health, the team added: “Generally, things do seem better in the morning.” Image: Pic: PA In the study, people were asked questions like: “In the past week, how happy did you feel?”, “How satisfied have you been with your life?”, and “To what extent have you felt the things you are doing in your …

Simplify Your Morning With a One-Step Coffee-Weighing Cup

Simplify Your Morning With a One-Step Coffee-Weighing Cup

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Eyeballs are great: I have two. I also like spoons. But if you want a consistent coffee dose for great espresso or pour-over, a precise scale is the mildly inconvenient one true path. I can still remember a time when in order to weigh out my coffee beans each morning, I placed a little dosing cup atop a digital scale, and then pressed a button on the scale, and then waited a second or so for the scale’s display to zero out before pouring coffee beans into the dosing cup. Back in the sands of time—October of 2024, I think it was—I didn’t consider this a dire inconvenience. It’s just how coffee scales work. But perhaps they don’t need to. Over the past year or so, a few coffee brands have cottoned to the simple idea that a dosing cup and scale could be combined into one device. Trigger lightbulbs above foreheads, and bluebirds on shoulders. Perhaps the most elegant of these is the Subscale, new from Singapore coffee brand Subminimal (also the maker of …

CEO Fires 99 Out of 110 Workers for Missing Morning Meeting

CEO Fires 99 Out of 110 Workers for Missing Morning Meeting

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“I joined an internship, and an hour later, the entire team got fired.” Firing Squad The CEO of The Musician’s Club, an online instrument storefront, reportedly fired 99 out of 110 employees and contracted freelancers for missing a single morning meeting. A Musician’s Club intern described the surreal event in a viral and since-deleted post on the subreddit mildlyinfuriating, writing that “I joined an internship, and an hour later, the entire team got fired.” Music production magazine MusicTech has since obtained internal messages the CEO sent on Slack, confirming the crazy story. “I was a part of the [group of] 99” who didn’t attend the meeting, the intern said in another Reddit thread, because they’d learned from other employees that Musician’s Club CEO Baldvin Oddsson was untrustworthy. “After hearing about the work conditions, I deactivated my Slack account and just left,” the user wrote. This sudden departure isn’t as unwarranted as it sounds. The self-described intern explained that every fired Musician’s Club employee is an unpaid, remote worker — so this isn’t a story of …

Ed Balls Skips Good Morning Britain Interview Amid Conflict Of Interest

Ed Balls Skips Good Morning Britain Interview Amid Conflict Of Interest

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ITV were flooded with thousands of complaints in August after Balls joined in a grilling of the home secretary. At the time, GMB bosses defended the decision to let the interview go ahead. “Following a weekend of rioting and national unrest, GMB featured a range of interviews and discussion around this national emergency on today’s programme which included James Cleverly, shadow home secretary, and Yvette Cooper, home secretary,” a spokesperson said. “We are satisfied that these interviews were balanced, fair and duly impartial.” But on GMB this morning, viewers were informed that there had been a change of heart. Balls’ co-presenter Susanna Reid said: “Still to come, as the government doubles the money it’s putting in to tackle people smuggling gangs, it is still facing criticism after a record month for crossings in October. Joined by the home secretary Yvette Cooper next.” Balls then said: “Who as you know, she’s my wife. so I’ll sit this one out.” Source link

Sunday Morning

Sunday Morning

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Before we’d even started she’d begun to clear, the whitefish salad bought special for those among us still unschmeared. So good to see you, and so good you’ll come again, and so wonderful to think of you next year. When will I see you? I’ll be there. I’ll be here. Her holiday the selling season, the store she’d had long dead. The stories anchored her and us to her. October is Thanksgiving is the New Year. O to be the littlest generation, squirreling hard pretzels into the attic window of the flower room, hiding in a book. We’d play hide-and-seek, knew the spots for the pleasure of being sought and found. O I will leave no house to my generation. O there are houses where once there wasn’t even an emptiness, a lot undivided, a glut of four-leaf clovers, weird that close to the sea. And her assets are divided, equal as ashes, that is, together in the plot, which ends here. It’s the end of an era. So the ones who will remember will …

Getting morning sunlight can improve sleep quality, study suggests

Getting morning sunlight can improve sleep quality, study suggests

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A new study published in the Journal of Health Psychology has found that exposure to sunlight in the morning may improve sleep quality later that night. Individuals who spent time in the sun during the morning reported better sleep quality, regardless of how much total sunlight they received throughout the day. The results suggest that morning sunlight may help regulate circadian rhythms. Sleep is increasingly recognized as critical to health, influencing outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression, and general well-being. However, sleep duration appears to be declining in the general population, with more people reporting insufficient rest. Previous research has explored various factors that can influence sleep, including diet, exercise, and socio-economic conditions. Sunlight, a key regulator of circadian rhythms and melatonin production, has been linked to sleep in prior studies. However, there has been limited research on how daily sun exposure, especially its timing, affects sleep. The researchers aimed to fill this gap by investigating how morning, mid-day, and evening sunlight exposure correlates with sleep quality. The study followed 103 adults over a …

I ran a mile every morning for a week—here’s what happened

I ran a mile every morning for a week—here’s what happened

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I’m not usually into running, preferring boxing or HIIT workouts for cardio as I find long form cardio monotonous. However, recently I’ve been in a workout rut so I decided to try a quick morning run to shake things up a bit. I haven’t always avoided running—I ran the NYC Half Marathon in 2018. After that, I continued running occasionally but an ankle injury derailed me a couple of years ago, and I stopped completely. For this challenge, I limited my morning runs to just one mile. I set no expectations and didn’t pressure myself to run a certain pace. I simply wanted to ease back into running. Here’s how it went. What I learned from running a mile every day I faced some mental barriers At first, I had doubts about the challenge. I worried about my endurance and how I’d cope with the early morning starts. But after running the route once, I knew how long it would take and what to expect, which helped put me in the right mindset. I also …

Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee Routine?

Is Andrew Huberman Ruining Your Morning Coffee Routine?

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Andrew Huberman–the host of the influ­en­tial Huber­man Lab pod­cast–has got­ten a lot of mileage out of his rec­om­mend­ed morn­ing rou­tine. His rou­tine empha­sizes the impor­tance of get­ting sun­light with­in 30–60 min­utes of wak­ing; also engag­ing in light phys­i­cal activ­i­ty; hydrat­ing well; and avoid­ing cof­fee for the first 90–120 min­utes. In his words: I high­ly rec­om­mend that every­body delay their caf­feine intake for 90 to 120 min­utes after wak­ing. How­ev­er painful it may be to even­tu­al­ly arrive at that 90 to 120 min­utes after wak­ing, you want, and I encour­age you, to clear out what­ev­er resid­ual adeno­sine is cir­cu­lat­ing in your sys­tem in that first 90 to 120 min­utes of the day. Get that sun­light expo­sure, get some move­ment to wake up, and then, and only then, start to ingest caf­feine because what you’ll do if you delay caf­feine intake until 90 to 120 min­utes after wak­ing is you will avoid the so-called after­noon crash. And if you drink caf­feine at any point through­out the day, real­ly try and avoid any caf­feine, cer­tain­ly avoid drink­ing more …

Good Morning Britain’s Richard Madeley told off by bosses as he threatens to walk-off

Good Morning Britain’s Richard Madeley told off by bosses as he threatens to walk-off

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Tensions rose on Good Morning Britain when co-host Richard Madeley was given a stern telling-off by ITV chiefs. The moment unfolded as Olympic silver medallist Daryll Neita joined Madeley and fellow presenter Kate Garraway on the programme. An eager Richard exclaimed: “Let’s see it!”, in reference to the medal. Daryll happily responded, “Do you want to put it on?”, which led to an excited Richard asking: “Can I?!” while Kate chimed in with support: “Oh wow, go on! So exciting. You go for it.” As they admired the medal, Richard pondered how to wear it correctly, then proceeded with the interview. However, he soon revealed: “Oh, apparently I’ve got to hand it back. Why have I got to hand it back?!” Garraway firmly stated: “You’ve got to hand it back because we want to see her wearing it!”, reports the Mirror. Richard retorted: “Well she offered! I didn’t take it off her, I didn’t nick it.” To which Kate affirmed: “We won’t steal it, but we want to have the image of her with her …