New Year's resolution, a secular tradition most common in
the West but found around the world, in which a person makes a promise
to do an act of self-improvement starting on New Year's Day. Everyone wants to start 2014 off on the right foot
. But, as many of us know all too well, the best New Year's intentions
to get fit, lose weight, eat more nutritiously, stress less and save
more money can easily fall to the wayside. And often do, considering
only about
8 percent of people successfully achieve their resolutions, according to University of Scranton Research.
However, it could be that the reason all your other resolutions are
failing -- and the reason you're having trouble making sound food
choices or keeping weight off to begin with -- is you're ignoring a
simple yet powerful component of total health:
sleep.