Clemson head coach ‘Dabo’ Swinney wears 8ight band.

Head Coach Dabo Swinney is wearing the Clemson 8ight band.  Photo by Rex Brown

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney holds the Atlantic Division Championship trophy after the Tigers beat Wake Forest. Coach Swinney has found a way to bring some consistency to the football program, as Clemson has won or tied for the ACC’s Atlantic Division championship in three of the past four seasons. They are looking to win the Atlantic […]

Portrait of the key Alabama football players in the National Title Game.

Portrait celebrating the National Title game

Check out the portrait of the key University of Alabama players in the National Title Game.  Note running back T.J. Yeldon’s left wrist with our band on as he is scoring a touchdown. In his freshman season, Yeldon rushed for 1,108 yards on 154 carries and 12 touchdowns. His season high for the year was 153 […]

Fatigue Tax

Sleep loss is costing our nation Billions of dollars. We all complain of taxes. Federal, state and local taxes will take an average 28.9% of income in 2013.  According to the Tax Foundation it will take us from January 1 until April 17th in 2013 to pay the taxman before we start working for our […]

Effects of lost sleep tax our hearts

HEART TAX: The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States, including health care expenditures and lost productivity from deaths and disability, is projected to be more than $500 billion in 2013. Cardiovascular diseases, including heart disease and stroke, are the first and third leading causes of death for both men and women […]

Obesity Tax

We all complain of taxes. Federal, state and local taxes but now there is talk about a fat tax. 1 in 3 Americans believe that obese people should pay more in taxes than healthy weight people according to one national survey. There is the cry. “Put down that junk food and hit the treadmill.” But […]

Sleep can help ease Diabetes tax

The impact of the sleep deficit is cumulative. Sleep deprivation is often associated with a number of diseases and conditions, including diabetes.  Additionally, lack of sleep can negatively affect your job performance; create relationship problems; and mood problems like anger and depression. The cost of medical resources used to treat avoidable illness, the impact of these […]

Lack of sleep taxes the immune system

BR-Boost

We are closing in on April 15th the deadline to turn in our taxes.  But there is a different kind of tax, the one to our immune system, that we can pay-off easy by turning in for the night.  Seven to eight hours sleep can help us feel better, look better and have more $$$ in our […]

Work performance tax – linked to sleep

An exhausted senior businessman has fallen asleep on his work.

Tax this and tax that.  All we hear from Washington is about taxes which is annoying during tax season. Now we are learning that we are taxing our work performance when we do not get adequate sleep. Without adequate rest the brain’s ability to function quickly deteriorates. The brain works harder to counteract sleep deprivation […]

Genes ‘switch off” due to lack of sleep

Lack of sleep effects cognition

Think you can live on less than six hours of sleep per night.  Think again. One week of bad sleep can ‘switch off’ hundreds of genes and raise the risk of a bevy of illnesses including heart disease, diabetes,  and obesity, according scientists from Surrey University. The findings in the study recently published in Proceedings […]

Impact of subtle energy on our body

Subtle Energy

Latest discoveries show subtle energy forces in nature can penetrate everything, causing instantaneous reaction at incredible distances. We tend to think of our body as a machine when in fact it is made of energy. Our body appears to be solid, but if we magnify the cells, molecules, and atoms of which we are composed, […]

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