Health: praise of the siesta

2023-08-20 21:09:51

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M.Martel, A.Richier, A.Guéry, L.Houeix, C.Marchand, M.Dumas, L.Hodina, O.Sauvayre

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The holidays are the perfect time to take a nap. Good for our health, it is also a flourishing economic market.

HAS the hour when the sun sets the sky ablaze, following lunch, this campsite is deserted. The muscles relax, the eyelids close, travel to dreamland. Difficult to resist the call of the siesta. The siesta, which has existed for millennia, invites itself to the office and arouses the appetite of investors. The first traces date back to antiquity. In the Middle Ages, we slept twice in the same night, with a break in the middle.

Reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and stress

Then the second sum shifts to midday. This is where the word siesta comes from, it evokes the sixth hour following daybreak, or noon. Long synonymous with laziness, it is becoming serious business. It should last 10 to 30 minutes ideally to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and stress. Siesta becomes a flourishing economic market. For ten years, specialized establishments have multiplied: nap bars.

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