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From: warren@ihnss.UUCP (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re:  Jet Lag
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 17:09:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 17:09:57 1984
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My best advice is unless you are either going to phase shift by
nearly 1/2 day or really must for some reason be absolutely positive
of being perfectly fit the minute you arrive, ignore it.  It amazes
me that people who wouldn't think twice about staying up a couple of
extra hours for a good party or sleeping in a couple of hours on
Sunday morning get all up tight about the effects of Jet lag. 
Unless you are unusually susceptible, 3 hours won't make much
difference, and I doubt that the effect on your life, whatever it
is, will be as severe as several days of special diets, and eating,
and sleeping patterns beforehand.  The worst effect of long distance
travel happens when you fly overnight on an eastbound flight, and
usually wind up going almost 2 full days with no sleep.  Even there,
however, I suspect that most people will be perfectly functional
after the first night's sleep.

If you are still worried, try this.  Simply shift your schedule by
one hour in the appropriate direction before you leave.  (Going east
to west, start getting up and going to bed an hour later). When you
get there, adopt a schedule shifted an hour in the other direction,
which on a coast-to-coast trip is only one hour away from what you
were on.  You never move more than 1 hour in any day.

-- 

	Warren Montgomery
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