It is a fact that we live in a very "fast" world. If we take a look to our personal routine, we might notice that we are always in a hurry trying to be on time, going from one place to another and trying to make things as fast as possible in order to have more free time to do thing we really enjoy. Each of us has personal habits and very specific routines. However, at least one time in our life, we have all already had problems to fall asleep. It has also been proved that at lease 30% of America´s population suffers of sleep disorders. The most common one might be "insomnia" which is known as the lack of sleep during the night. According to the experts, "this is often caused by stressful situations, pain, digestion problems, anxiety, caffeine drinks abuse and some medications usually taken to control high blood pressure, birth control and even asthma."
As a personal advice, I would recommend a person with sleep disorder to eat in a healthy way. We can include more vegetables and fruits to our personal diet, instead of fast food and carbohydrate drinks. On the other hand, exercising at least two or three times a week, we can have better results when trying to sleep at night. Another useful advice is to try to resolve our personal issues during the day, this will help us to control our anxiety and worries during the night. Sleeping is as important as eating healthy and working out, it is the time we spend resting after a day full of work.
Reference: Taken from National Sleep Foundation. "Cannot sleep? Want to know about insomnia". http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/sleep-related-problems/insomnia-and-sleep. Visited on February 10th, 2013
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