Five more minutes to 1 am midnight, i'm off to bed after writing this post. I always sleep at 1am, i'm one of the earliest to sleep in my MSN list of friends. Actually 1am is not consider very early, ideally 11pm is the best. :) But i agreed that it is really hard to be able to sleep at 11pm.
Why sleep early? The night is still young?! Of course there are reasons why you and i should sleep early and leave the not-so-urgent stuffs to tomorrow. Stuffs like watching DVDs, reading magazines, playing computer games... All these are best leave for the next day. It is better to sleep early and wake up early with high spirits to do all these, than doing these in the middle of the night.
Here's why:
1) Reading through the night stress out your eyes, especially if your eyes are already tired after a long day, and worse if your room lightning is dim.
2) During sleep, our body organs get rest and de-tox. Staying awake makes our organs stress out, leading to weak body system. Ever wonder why some people got panda eyes? Looks dry and tired in the day?
The third reason you probably would be interested if you are conscious of your weight. SLEEPING LATE WILL MAKES YOU FAT.
Hear that? Sleeping late will makes you fat, and lose muscle. Sleeping late will cause your hormone to release sugar into the bloodsteam for energy. Insulin then spikes up to store this sugar into fats, since you didn't used up the energy. (Unless you workout in 2am?!). And if you sleep late frequently, you will mess up your insulin resistance and high chances you will get Type 2 diabetes. Read up for more info regarding insulin and diabetes here. As for muscle, muscle grows during our sleep. If you don't sleep, they don't grow. Losing muscle means lower Basic Metabolism Rate, which means lower efficiency to burn calories. And thus not good for fat loss. Simple as said.
Type 2 diabetes: The pancreas secretes insulin, but the body is partially or completely unable to use the insulin. This is sometimes referred to as insulin resistance. The body tries to overcome this resistance by secreting more and more insulin. People with insulin resistance develop type 2 diabetes when they do not continue to secrete enough insulin to cope with the higher demands.
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