Living in the only Spanish city among the ten European cities with the highest quality of life has its benefits, and our Malaga is a dream.
The climate in the south is always a plus when it comes to encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being”, supported by food, physical exercise, health prevention, work, rest and social activity.
Living in an area with a higher quality of life may push us to be more active people, go for walks, carry out social activities or eat in a varied way. But rest is just as important and doesn’t affect your location.
Today we are going to focus on the number of benefits that a good rest brings you and improves your lifestyle.
On the one hand, sleep helps to consolidate memory, but also to reorganize information and extract the most relevant data. In addition, studies conducted at the University of Notre Dame suggest that restful sleep produces new and more creative ideas.
Another study conducted at the University of Ontario (Canada) showed that after a night of restful sleep, a person improves their ability to learn complex motor tasks such as playing an instrument or playing a sport.
Sleeping well is also an effective beauty treatment, since resting makes us wake up healthier and more attractive than if we deprive ourselves of sleep.
Remember that to rest well you have to sleep between 6 and 8 hours, no more and no less. The journal Sleep conducted a study in which it is estimated that reducing the hours of rest increases the risk of premature death by 12%. Sleeping more than 8 hours does not harm health, but it can be an indicator of a disease according to the study.
Against obesity, rest can affect body mass index, as one scholar showed, looking at two twins for the University of Washington Sleep Institute. He concluded that sleeping more than necessary can increase the body mass index slightly, while lack of sleep can quadruple the index, favoring being overweight.
When it comes to napping, 45 minutes during the day can have incredible benefits for the cardiovascular system, specifically for blood pressure that stays lower if we nap versus if we don’t, especially if we suffer from stress. In addition to reducing hypertension problems.
We hope that knowing a little more about how rest affects us will help you achieve a healthy lifestyle and give the most of yourself.
