We are publishing a preview of an article in the new Corriere Salute. You can read the full text on the newsstand issue for free Thursday 26th November or in Pdf on the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
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a law of physics, the second law of thermodynamics: all natural processes involve an increase in entropy. That is, they lead to a system in which the degree of order of the elements decreases. Translated, in the nature of things to tend to disorder if we do not intervene and put some effort into it: if we don’t wash the dishes, the dirty dishes will accumulate in the sink, if we don’t put the books back on the shelves, piles will form on the floor, and so on. More or less, we all try to oppose the chaos and do well, since the order also helps to stay healthy.
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Disturbed sleep
Living in a house where there are too many things piled up for example can compromise sleep: Pamela Thacher, a psychologist at St. Lawrence University in the United States, has shown that the disorder in the room reduces the quality of rest and this can then translate into stress, anxiety, increased appetite and everything that can derive from disturbed sleep, including poorer cognitive performance. Data also confirmed by a survey by the US National Sleep Foundation, according to which those who do not tolerate seeing the bed unmade and carefully make it every morning are 19 percent more likely to sleep well (and if the sheets are always clean, even better rest for 75 percent of respondents).
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The dirty dishes effect
Some time ago then Lenny Vartanian University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, demonstrated on a group of volunteers that having the kitchen cluttered with dirty dishes, with pans and pots lying around and bulk food on the shelves leads to more eating and pure choose less healthy foods, such as chocolate chip cookies instead of fruit. Those who find themselves in a clean and tidy kitchen resist temptation, even if under stress: the combination of a chaotic environment and the feeling of fatal anxiety, and in the long run it can lead to putting on a few extra pounds. If the house is in order, however, according to data collected by psychologists at the University of Los Angeles in California, anxiety, but also depression, are less likely; in reverse living in apartments full of stacked items increases the production of cortisol, the stress hormone.
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You can continue reading the article in Corriere Salute on newsstands for free on Thursday 26 November or in Pdf in the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
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November 24, 2020 (change November 24, 2020 | 20:53)
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