Choose the best sleeping position

Hello lovely steemians,nice to have a sweet day to share with you.Not just that but sharing with you something so prudent that most of us overlook..Do you get enough rest?Have you regularized your rest pattern too?How many hours of your sleep time makes you feel better?These sound rhetoric but they are the very little things that wear some of us off...Lets take good time and have a close perusal of these sleeping styles and choose one which best fits us..

Back position(The best).

• Good for: Preventing neck and back pain, reducing acid reflux, minimizing wrinkles, maintaining perky breasts.

• Bad for: Snoring

The scoop : Sleeping on your back makes it easy for your head, neck, and spine to maintain a neutral position.
"You’re not forcing any extra curves into your back", says Steven Diamant, a chiropractor in New York City. "It’s also ideal for fighting acid reflux", says Eric Olson, MD, a sleep medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "If the head is elevated, your stomach will be below your esophagus so acid or food can’t come back up."

Back sleepers lets consider this too;

"Snoring is usually most frequent and severe when sleeping on the back," Dr. Olson says.

Perfect pillow: The best pillows for back sleepers are puffy, and their goal is to keep your head and neck supported without propping your head up too much.

Side position(next best position)

• Good for: Preventing neck and back pain, reducing acid reflux, snoring less, sleeping during pregnancy

• Bad for: Your skin and your breasts

The scoop: Side-sleeping is great for overall health—it reduces snoring and keeps your spine elongated. If you suffer from acid reflux, this is the next best thing to sleeping on your back. The downside:
"Sleeping on your side can cause you to get wrinkles," Dr. Glaser says. Blame all that smushing of one side of your face into the pillow.

"This pose also contributes to breast sag, since your girls are dangling downward, stretching the ligaments" says Roshini Rajapaksa, MD, Health’s contributing medical editor.

Fetal position(not so ideal)

• Good for: Snoring less, sleeping during pregnancy

• Bad for: Preventing neck and back pain, minimizing wrinkles, maintaining perky breasts

The scoop: "When you snooze with your knees pulled up high and chin tucked into your chest, you may feel it in the morning, especially if you have an arthritic back or joints", Dr. Olson says.

"This curved position also restricts diaphragmatic breathing," adds Dody Chang, a licensed acupuncturist in Irvington, NY. And if you make this your nightly pose, you may bring on premature facial wrinkles and breast sag.

Stomach position(the worst)

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• Good for: Easing snoring

• Bad for: Avoiding neck and back pain, minimizing wrinkles, maintaining perky breasts

The scoop: "Stomach-sleeping makes it difficult to maintain a neutral position with your spine" Shannon explains. It puts pressure on joints and muscles, which can irritate nerves and lead to pain, numbness, and tingling. "Think about the soreness you’d feel if you kept your neck turned to one side for 15 minutes during the day" Dr. Diamant explains.

In this position you have your head to one side for hours at a time. You won’t necessarily feel it the next day, but you may soon start to ache.

I believe everyone has a particular sleeping position that favours him/her and sometimes some of these possitions do really reflect our personality..Choose the best sleeping style and live healthy.