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Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival | 
 enlarge | Authors: T. S. Wiley, Bent Formby
Publisher: Atria
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 685174
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0671038672
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.071
EAN: 9780671038670
ASIN: 0671038672
Publication Date: February 1, 2000
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Condition: A nice ex-library used copy. Some library markings. Pages clear. Cover has a few small markings. Edges and corners softly worn. Binding solid and tight.
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Book Description
When it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, everything you believe is a lie. Lights Out With research gleaned from the National Institutes of Health, T.S. Wiley and Bent Formby deliver staggering findings: Americans really are sick from being tired. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression are rising in our population. We're literally dying for a good night's sleep. Our lifestyle wasn't always this way. It began with the invention of the lightbulb. When we don't get enough sleep in sync with seasonal light exposure, we fundamentally alter a balance of nature that has been programmed into our physiology since Day One. This delicate biological rhythm rules the hormones and neurotransmitters that determine appetite, fertility, and mental and physical health. When we rely on artificial light to extend our day until 11 PM, midnight, and beyond, we fool our bodies into living in a perpetual state of summer. Anticipating the scarce food supply and forced inactivity of winter, our bodies begin storing fat and slowing metabolism to sustain us through the months of hibernation and hunger that never arrive. Our own survival instinct, honed over millennia, is now killing us. Wiley and Formby also reveal: That studies from our own government research prove the role of sleeplessness in diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, mental illness, and premature aging; Why the carbohydrate-rich diets recommended by many health professionals are not only ridiculously ineffective but deadly; Why the lifesaving information that can turn things around is one of the best-kept secrets of our day. Lights Out is one wake-up call none of us can afford to miss.
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We all know we don't get enough sleep. What we don't know is that there is a killer connection between sleep, food, light, and health. And that when it comes to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and depression, you need to rethink everything you know. Based on years of research at the National Institute of Health, Kept in the Dark will tell you: -- Why weight-loss is as easy as the flick of a switch -- Why researchers can give mice cancer just by leaving the lights on -- Why exercise can really give you a heart attack -- Why Type II diabetes has increased four-fold and why you're next -- Why you're overproducing sex hormones but you're too tired to want sex -- Why infertility plagues Baby Boomers -- Why we're a Prozac Nation and still fight depression constantly -- Why you'll go the way of the dinosaurs if you don't eat and sleep in sync with the spin of the planet
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 Fascinating, non-conformist, full of useful tips, well-researched August 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Explores the links between the invention of electric light, diseases, depression, etc. This book changed the way I live, quite literally. Some people seem afraid of these ideas, but all is explained in the book. Once you think about these things, it all seems quite self-evident. Of all the books I've read over the years, this is one of the most important.
 bad pseudo-science June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The concept for this book is intriguing. If the hypothesis is correct, it would be a most compelling idea for managing our health and emotions.
But... While the author repeatedly says "studies show," she never puts in the reference for *what* study. You can't search the sources. The apparent attitude is that repeating the same leap-of-faith associations many, many times will result in all of us accepting them to be true. Politicians do this regularly. So do used car salesmen. It's not an appropriate scientific investigation.
I confess that I didn't finish the book. I got fed up with the lack of justification and repeated attempts to link Gaia, quantum physics, and serotonin.
This is *not* the scientific method of developing an hypothesis, formulating a test, and observing the results.
Charlie
Don't Be Offended... May 25, 2008
I gave this book 5 stars because it has really made me think about the way I'm treating my body. You always hear from people that you should get more sleep but I'm willing to bet most people have just a rough understanding of why. A couple reasons why this book might be tough to read:
- The writing style has been commented on by other readers, the author can sometimes be offensive or crude but honestly I think that everyone should be able to look past this. It could have been done a different way but with absolutely no "comments" it would read like a textbook which is no fun..
- You will probably be offended more than once. This book makes some serious recommendations about the way you should sleep and also eat, recommendations that you will probably be mad at because you haven't been doing them your whole life (or possibly any of it!) Just take them with an open mind, there are 100 pages of footnotes at the end of the book to back them up!
 Some Good, Lots Bizarre, Some Dangerous April 7, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Lights Out" advocates a high protein diet, and claims the drop in serotonin alleviates depression. They also claim the risk for kidney damage is remote even if you ate absolutely (no) carbohydrates for 7 months or longer. They also claim that a high carb diet causes muscle loss, yet in fact it is a high protein diet that causes muscle loss. They claim that the cause of depression, manic depression, and schizophrenis is simply from being out of light and dark rythm, and in fact that all mental illness stems from sleep dysfunction. They also say that people with low serotonin are happy people, and that it is serotonin in any amount that's a downer. They say that little sleep causes excess serotonin, and that excess serotonin causes depression. They seem to ignore the fact that people who suffer from depression in fact have less depression when they get less sleep and get more light, thus more serotonin, and that antidepressants method of action is by increasing serotonin. But, no, they insist that excess serotonin makes you blue. Why then, do people get more blue in the winter when there is less light, and find themselves eating more carbohydrates to subconsciously increase their serotonin levels and lighten their blue mood?
There is some good information in this book, but it gets so overwhelmed by the bizarre discussions, comments, and side-trails into subject matters that did not even apply to this book. One third of the book is end notes, and I feel another third of the book could also have been eliminated. Even with the one third of the book I feel applied to the subject matter, I feel there was a lot of erroneous information and personal bias that had nothing to do with fact.
There are some things in this book that I think are dangerous. They suggest taking 150 mg of zinc, twice a day, to reset your internal clock. Taking more than 100 mg a day can be dangerous, and can suppress your immune system, cause enemia, or lower your good (HDL) cholesterol. Also, they recommend tyrosine, but do not reveal that it can severely restrict blood vessels. Note that they do object to high levels of serotonin, partly due to the fact that it can restrict blood vessels, but then they recommend a supplement that will do that. Wacko! So much contrary information in this book!
Extraordinarily plausible February 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book makes sense - often tongue-in-cheek; the humor lightens the reading of it.
Good rational and theories - easy to read - not so easy to follow!
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