Chichester and Arundel Lifestyle Mar - Apr 2020
Spring has awakened and our magazine is alive with a bountiful bouquet of features - from interviews with famous faces, delicious Easter recipes, travel to Santa Barbara, UK staycations, a bathroom and tile guide plus advice on choosing the right school.
Spring has awakened and our magazine is alive with a bountiful bouquet of features - from interviews with famous faces, delicious Easter recipes, travel to Santa Barbara, UK staycations, a bathroom and tile guide plus advice on choosing the right school.
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<strong>2020</strong>: THE YEAR OF SLEEP<br />
<strong>2020</strong> is set to be the ‘Year of Sleep’ as the third<br />
of a life we spend in bed takes a higher profile<br />
than ever before...<br />
<strong>Mar</strong>ch is<br />
National<br />
Bed Month<br />
With more <strong>and</strong> more wellbeing <strong>and</strong> mental health organisations<br />
focusing on the importance of a good night’s rest, even Tatler has<br />
called sleep ‘the new status symbol’. Already lined up for the year<br />
is the presentation of a Sleep Manifesto to an all-party House<br />
of Commons group on <strong>Mar</strong>ch 4. And, importantly, the Mental<br />
Health Foundation announced at the end of 2019 that the theme<br />
for Mental Health Awareness Week in May will be the connection<br />
between sleep – or lack of it – <strong>and</strong> mental health.<br />
Said Lisa Artis, chief advisor for The Sleep Council: “For too long<br />
we’ve seen sleep regarded as virtually an ‘optional extra’ when it<br />
comes to good health, but a growing tide of scientific evidence is<br />
proving that it is vital to both our physical <strong>and</strong> mental wellbeing.<br />
Unlike diet <strong>and</strong> exercise, the subject of sleep is barely mentioned<br />
in schools – <strong>and</strong> while access is given to all kinds of physical <strong>and</strong><br />
wellbeing training in the workplace, help with achieving a good<br />
night’s sleep is rarely considered. Given that 200,000 working<br />
days a year are lost in the UK through sleep-related problems*,<br />
that would seem to be an incredibly short-sighted approach.<br />
“However, it would finally appear that the tide is changing <strong>and</strong><br />
highly significant that the Mental Health Foundation – which itself<br />
has enjoyed a hugely raised profile in the past year – is to focus<br />
on the importance of sleep to mental health as its campaign<br />
theme for May.”<br />
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