Healthiest Sleeping Styles

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Health Journal to provide your favorite clock you can back and neck pain, abdominal pain, give the same premature wrinkles. Discover the best position for your body in one you can avoid.

Best position back
Suitable for: Preventing neck and back pain, reducing acid reflux to minimize wrinkles, keep cheerful chest
Bad for: snoring

Scoop: Sleeping on your back, it is for the head, neck and spine to maintain a neutral position easily. They are not there to make additional curves in the back, said Stephen Diamond, a chiropractor in New York. It is perfect for combat aussi heartburn, said Dr. Olson, "When the head is removed, the stomach will reduce the esophagus if the acid or food can not go back."

Back-aussi sleep helps prevent wrinkle prevention, because there is no hurry to face, says Dee Anna Glaser, MD, professor of dermatology at the University of St. Louis. And the weight of the chest is fully supported, sagginess reduced.

Back sleepers: Consider this
"Snoring is usually the most frequent and severe sleep on their backs," says Olson.

The perfect pillow, a pudgy. The goal is, without resting too head to keep your head and neck are supported.

Next best: by position
Suitable for: Preventing neck and back pain, acid reflux reduces snoring less, sleeping during pregnancy
Bad for: the skin and breast

Scoop: sleeping on your side is for overall health reduces snoring, and it keeps the stretched spine. If you suffer from acid reflux, is the next best thing to sleeping on your back. Disadvantages: "Sleeping on your side can wrinkles, running," said Dr. Glaser. Author All That smushing a side of the face in a pillow.

This creates aussi Promotes breast sagging how your daughter hang down, stretching the ligaments, said Health Medical Editor Roshini Rajapaksa, MD.

side sleepers: Consider this
If you are pregnant, sleeping on the left side. It is perfect for blood circulation.

The perfect pillow thick. "You have to fill the space over his shoulder, so that the head and neck held in a neutral position," said Ken Shannon, a physiotherapist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Not ideal: the fetal position
Suitable for: snoring less sleep during pregnancy
Bad: To avoid neck and back pain, minimizing wrinkles, perky breast care

Scoop: When you translate the tribes stood up and folded his chin in the chest, you can feel it in the morning, especially if you have arthritis, back or joints, says Olson.

"This position of the curve limits aussi diaphragmatic breathing," said Chang Dodi, acupuncturist with the Center for Integrative Medicine at Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut. And if you do, your position is night, you can not submit to premature wrinkles and sagging breasts.