mark@rochester.UUCP (Mark Kahrs) (08/26/83)
From: Mark Kahrs <mark> The following blurb on jet lag comes direct from this past Sunday's New Yawk Times (to which I am incurably addicted): "Basically, the more time zones you cross, and the faster you cross them, the more your body has to make an adjustment. To minimize jet lag significantly, of course, travelers would take much longer to reach a destination rather than trying to find the fastest route with the fewest and shortest stopovers. The traditional ways of coping with jet lag include scheduling one's arrival for late afternoon or evening, eating lightly en route and taking a walk in order to go to sleep at the right time locally. However, many flights from the East Coast to Europe, for example, have an arrival time that is early in the morning locally. Some travellers prefer to sleep as best they can on the flight, check into their hotel upon arrival and then go out for some sightseeing the first day; others would unpack and rest the first day, then start out slowly the third and fourth days abroad. Recently, an anti-jet lag diet, one that attempts to "fool" the body's biological clock has been developed. Essentially, the diet relies on eating certain kinds of food and drinking stimulant beverages as well as resting and being active according to a plan for several days before departure. (How many days depends on the length of the flight and the number of time zones crossed) Eat lightly the day before departure and have dishes that are low in calories and carbohydrates. At departure, adjust your watch for destination time and begin taking meals on destination time. High protein breakfast and lunch, and a carbohydrate-laden dinner should be consumed the day of arrival. The book, which is called "Overcoming Jet Lag" (Berkley Publishing), was written by Charles F. Ehret and Lynne W. Scanlon"