Despite keeping your weight down, exercising, and following a balanced diet, free of added sugars, junk foods, and simple carbs and u think u might be doing everything right to avoid insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes and in the pink of health and yes a very clean bill each checking but.....

If you're not getting enough sleep, it may not be doing you a bit of good. Myself is good example and every time I did not get enough sleep my blood sugar and BP level sure elelevated to certain level beyond boundarries though I am not in that catagory called a diabetic or HB sufferer. Thanks God tor that.

From my recent health read:

In a recent study, researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands checked the insulin levels of nine healthy people after eight hours of sleep. In the second phase of the study, the same subjects slept four hours and their insulin levels were checked again.

Results showed that just this ONE night of inadequate sleep reduced insulin sensitivity by as much as 25 percent in some subjects.

In the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the authors note that insulin sensitivity is apparently not fixed. Even in healthy people, a single night of poor sleep can temporarily knock everything out of whack.

Of course, one night of late-to-bed, early-to-rise won't prompt type 2 diabetes. But it very well could if that turns into a regular sleep pattern.

Last year, a study showed that people who get an average of less then six hours of sleep each night are more than four times more likely to develop blood sugar dysfunction compared to those who average more than six hours per night.

And that may explain the results of another recent study from the UK.

Researchers at the University of Warwick reviewed 16 sleep studies from various countries, including the U.S., Europe, and East Asia. Two results emerged: 1) Habitual lack of sleep increases risk of premature death by more than 10 percent, and 2) Excessive sleep (an average of more than nine hours each night) is also linked with premature death.

The difference: Too little sleep causes poor health, while too much sleep indicates that a serious health issue (such as hypertension) is already underway.

For some people, the fix for too little sleep is simple: Take this warning seriously and force yourself to turn off the TV, say "good night" to everyone a little earlier, and get adequate rest every night.

Remember that insomnia is a monster that's hard to tame.

My best natural sleeping aid is reading a bible or a story book that ease me into slumber land. Because this is the time my focus are on the words I read and not tending to focus on other subjects and my mind relaxed, so easily into slumber land with a deep sleep pattern. Thanks God for such.