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Article: Fly without fatigue.(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Stop jet lag before it starts
Maybe you have a love/hate relationship with your job. You love the fact that you get to travel the globe and see new sights, but you hate what the frequent changes in time zones do to your system. In other words, you get bad cases of jet lag. What's a frequent flier to do?
"Your body's sleep cycle is controlled by the daily alternating sunlight and darkness patterns you experience," says Pamela Smith, a sports nutritionist and author of The Energy Edge (LifeLine Press, $19.95). "Jet lag occurs when your body's inside clock and outside clock are [registering] two different things."
When you travel to a new time ...