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How to avoid jet lag

  1. Determine the breakfast time at destination of day of arrival.
  2. Follow the diet schedule feast/fast/ feast/fast on home time. Start three days before departure day.

Use home time for the following:

Day 1

Feast

 

Day 2

Fast

 

Day 3

Feast

 

Day 4 Departure Day

Fast

Going west? Fast only half day.

Notes to coffee and Coke fiends:

Going east?: Only between 6 and 11 p.m

Going west?: Take them in the morning.

Use destination time:

Sleep

But rise at breakfast time

No alcohol on the plane.

Breakfast

  • Wake up and Feast
  • Have a high-protein breakfast.
  • Lights on.
  • Stay awake and active.

No alcohol on the plane.

Remaining meals

Follow your normal meal schedule.

 

 

Feast

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

High-protein meals to stimulate the body's active cycle.

Suitable meals include:

  • Steak
  • Eggs
  • hamburgers
  • high-protein cereals
  • green beans.
  • Dinner

High-carbohydrate meal to stimulate sleep.

They include:

  • spaghetti and other pastas (but no meatballs)
  • crepes (but no meat filling)
  • potatoes
  • other starchy vegetables
  • sweet desserts.

Fast

FAST days help deplete the liver's store of carbohydrates and prepare the body's clock for resetting.

Suitable foods include:

 

 

ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY ANTI-JET-LAG-DIET

 

The Argonne Anti-Jet-Lag Diet is helping travelers quickly adjust their bodies' internal clocks to new time zones. It is also being used to speed the adjustment of shiftworkers, such as power plant operators, to periodically rotating work hours. The diet was developed by Dr. Charles F. Ehret of Argonne's Division of Biological and Medical Research as an application of his fundamental studies of the daily biological rhythms of animals. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's major centers of research in energy and the fundamental sciences.

Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439
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