Do You Know if You Should Skip Breakfast?

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Our metabolism is very different during the night and the day. If you take a big meal before bed, you're not going to be metabolizing it because you're going to be resting. The advice from chrono nutritionalists is try and concentrate food intake during the first half of the day. One of the key things during the day is to step back from stressful situations. Find ways of de-stressing towards the end of the day or go for a swim.

Sleep can enhance your creativity, lift your spirits, improve your sense of humor, and amplify your sociability. So why do so many of us struggle to get a good night's rest? Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford, says it's because we've let the frantic drumbeat of modern life drown out the steady tick-tock of our biological clocks. That's the bad news. The good news is that Russell's here to share science-backed tips that will have you catching more z's in no time.

Russell's new book is "Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep."

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