Here are some tips to help cope with the time change:
• Wake up 30 minutes earlier than usual on Saturday and Sunday to get a jump on Monday's early start.
• Eat a decent-sized breakfast.
• Go outside in the sunlight in the early morning.
• Exercise in the mornings over the weekend
(as long as you do not have pre-existing heart disease).
"Doing all of this will help reset both the central, or master, clock in the brain that reacts to changes in light/dark cycles, and the peripheral clocks — the ones everywhere else including the one in the heart — that react to food intake and physical activity," Young said. "This will enable your body to naturally synch with the change in the environment, which may lessen your chance of adverse health issues on Monday.(as long as you do not have pre-existing heart disease).
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