Tips for Managing Jet Lag
1. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables for two days before you leave and three days after you arrive at your destination. Eat pasta or rice the night before your flight.
2. Avoid heavy meals for 24 hours before your flight
(e.g. hunks o meat, fatty or fried food).
3. About 48 hours before your flight, set your watch to the time of your destination country. Make sure this is not your alarm clock! Begin to adjust your daily schedule to match
that of your destination country.
4. Drink plenty of water and fruit juices, especially during the flight.
Avoid caffeine and alcoholic drinks.
5. After you arrive, spend as much time as possible out of doors in natural lighting. This will help your body to naturally adjust to the time change.
6. Make a special effort to get plenty of exercise in the first couple of days after arrival. Also, walk around the plane once every hour on long flights.
7. Count on your body taking about on day to adjust to teach hour of difference in time. (For example, it will probably take about three days for your body to adjust to a three-hour time difference between your home and the destination country.)
1. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables for two days before you leave and three days after you arrive at your destination. Eat pasta or rice the night before your flight.
2. Avoid heavy meals for 24 hours before your flight
(e.g. hunks o meat, fatty or fried food).
3. About 48 hours before your flight, set your watch to the time of your destination country. Make sure this is not your alarm clock! Begin to adjust your daily schedule to match
that of your destination country.
4. Drink plenty of water and fruit juices, especially during the flight.
Avoid caffeine and alcoholic drinks.
5. After you arrive, spend as much time as possible out of doors in natural lighting. This will help your body to naturally adjust to the time change.
6. Make a special effort to get plenty of exercise in the first couple of days after arrival. Also, walk around the plane once every hour on long flights.
7. Count on your body taking about on day to adjust to teach hour of difference in time. (For example, it will probably take about three days for your body to adjust to a three-hour time difference between your home and the destination country.)