SLEEPING WITH ORANGES

Salud, Kids!
So, yesterday, a little sleep-deprived, I made Britt a dreamsicle cake (SCRATCH) for her birthday (the other B helped).



Dreamsicle sounds so, dreamy, but is really an orange cake. It was topped with a decadent buttercream orange frosting that was exquisite.

All this delectable orange-sugary-delight dreaminess, immediately make me long for a tiny snooze sleep under groovy orange light bulbs.

Seriously, I JUST (I am WAY behind this orange-curve as the science world yapped about it back in 2011) now discovered that white light bulbs are B-A-D for sweet dream inducing slumber and the glow of an orange one causes you to drift sweetly into dreamland.

It is all about Melatonin and stuff. The orange glow is good for you.


Come ON...let's get brainy (we can TRY) today and cast our eyes upon a colorful tidbit from Science Daily...

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ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2011) — Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs, it turns out, suppresses melatonin 5 times more than exposure to the light of high pressure sodium bulbs that give off an orange-yellow light. "Just as there are regulations and standards for 'classic' pollutants, there should also be regulations and rules for the pollution stemming from artificial light at night," says Prof. Abraham Haim of the University of Haifa.

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Kids, the thought of replacing a zillion light bulbs is exhausting, so I was wondering if tossing in a gaggle of the real deals (oranges) would cause the same effect. We do dwell in the land of oranges, so how hard could it be to just go find a grove and grab a load of 'em?


Probably not!

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