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Article: Beating jet lag's blues with sleep, diet, light
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 10, 1988
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Traveling to far-off places usually means crossing time zones -
and that means jet lag. When your body's clock is suddenly reset,
you feel jet lag's symptoms: fatigue, insomnia, indigestion,
headaches, irritability and general disorientation.
These collective symptoms are called "jet lag" because airplane
travel is primarily responsible. Before the age of air travel, it
took long enough to travel from one place to another that the body
had time to adjust to new time zones during the journey. But jets
make it possible to cross many time zones in a day or less, going as
far as halfway around the world and wreaking havoc on the body's
clock.
Individuals differ in their susceptibility to ...