Nadaleen Singh

It's con­sid­ered 'hip' to go to "fete` af­ter fete`", but it's not so 'hip' to let the body lack sleep be­cause of fet­ing. Med­ical ex­perts and oth­ers all agree that sleep is es­sen­tial to well­be­ing at all times. Dr Neil Singh, Head of the Health Ser­vices Unit, UWI St. Au­gus­tine has ad­vised be­fore go­ing to a fete the per­son should take what he re­ferred to as a "pow­er nap". If this is not done, he said, the cir­ca­di­an rhythm which is the cy­cle of sleep is in­ter­fered with, and when this hap­pens it can lead to fa­tigue, sleep de­pres­sion, blood pres­sure and car­dio vas­cu­lar risk.

Mean­while, Bri­an Chin Le­ung, fit­ness train­er ad­vised that a per­son needs sleep to have enough mus­cle pow­er to fete prop­er­ly. "When you are sleep­ing your body can con­cen­trate on mus­cle fi­bre re­pair," said Chin Le­ung. It's like when you are 'walk­ing it out' af­ter an ex­er­cise work­out - when you slow down and rest the ef­fect of mus­cle fi­bre re­pair is en­hanced," he said. Less sleep equals headaches, dizzi­ness and oth­er se­ri­ous com­pli­ca­tions, so watch out as you 'rant,' rave and mis­be­have this car­ni­val sea­son.