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• TRAVELING SMART: Adapt Schedule to New Time Zone, Lose Less Sleep .
•     This time disorientation is called "jet lag" and represents problems that occur when traveling east and west and adjusting to different sleep schedules relative to the sun. ...
• When traveling to a new time zone, it takes three to 15 days for the body to adjust to a new sleep schedule. ...
• Taking short daytime naps helps relieve some of the drowsiness, as long as you don't sleep so long that it interferes with nighttime sleep. ...
• It suppresses a hormone in the body called melatonin, which is present during the sleep cycle. ...
•     Melatonin can be purchased without a prescription, and 3 to 5 milligrams of melatonin used at bedtime for several days after arrival has been found to be of some help with better sleep and some hastening of the adjustment time. ...
•     Sleeping medication can help with better sleep during the first two to five days of adjustment. Over-the-counter antihistamine medication is generally safe and will often help promote sleep. Short-acting prescription sleep medication such as zolpidem (Ambien) or zaleplon (Sonata) may be helpful to those who have more trouble with sleep. ...
•     Some people have thought the best regimen might include a prescription sleep medication with melatonin, but studies using the two together resulted in more side effects, so you should use one or the other rather than both together. ...

• How to Get a Good Night's Sleep.
• Is Your Environment Conducive To Sleep?.
• How Much Sleep do You Need?.
• Counting them here, however, may make it too noisy to sleep!.
• Sleep is as essential to you as food, air, and water. ... If you do have trouble sleeping, several changes in lifestyle can help you regain a satisfactory sleep pattern. ...
• Never oversleep because of a poor night's sleep. ... Get up at about the same time every day, especially on the morning after you've lost sleep. ...
• This is especially important the day after a bad night's sleep. When you sleep less, you should be more active during the day. Being less active is one of the worst things an insomniac can do.
• ) in late afternoon seems to promote more restful sleep. ...
• Do not take any naps the day after you've lost sleep. ...
• Going to bed at about the same time every night can make sleep as regular as hunger.
• If you're only getting five hours of sleep a night during your insomnia period, don't go to bed until just five hours before your wake-up time. ... No naps! Make the time you spend in bed sleep time. ... Then, as your time in bed becomes good sleep time, move your going-to-bed time back 15 to 30 minutes a night and do that for a week or so.

• Sleep disorders become more common as you age .
•     My circadian timekeeper is out-of-whack, and, at 46, I am still a decade away from the age when sleep problems are most common. ... At least 37 million older adults (ages 55 and over) have sleep problems, according to the National Sleep Foundation, though only 7 million have been formally diagnosed by a doctor. ...
•     And that is a problem because lack of sleep is, so to speak, something to lose sleep over. ...
• One disorder, sleep apnea, is associated with a three- to seven-fold increase in the risk of falling asleep at the wheel, according to the foundation. ...
•     Racking up a sleep debt also can interfere with your ability to function during waking hours. ...
•     A "sleep debt": It turns out that sleep is as important as exercise and diet for living a long, healthy life, according to experts. ...
•     Yet our culture glamorizes people who get by on as little sleep as possible, from the high-powered executive to the Superwoman juggling a job, marriage and kids. ...
•     "Most of us get too little sleep by choice," said Greg Dupont, a West Valley City pulmonologist and board-certified sleep specialist. ... We give up sleep. ...
•     Younger people can seemingly tolerate a "sleep debt," but that becomes less true as you age -- particularly when it gets harder, for a variety of reasons, to get a good night's sleep. ...
• Deep sleep -- the key to a refreshing slumber -- also becomes more elusive. ...
•     "Little babies have lots and lots of deep sleep," said Dupont, who also is medical director of the Pioneer Valley Sleep Disorders Center. ... It doesn't sound good to have less deep sleep, but it's not necessarily abnormal. Some people feel fine, and some feel they are not getting a good sleep. ...
•     Other issues that get in the way of good slumber: obesity, overuse of alcohol, caffeine and nicotine, lack of physical and mental stimulation, decreased exposure to natural light, which helps regulate the sleep/wake cycle, certain medications and medical conditions. ...

• Wednesday, 8 January, 2003, 11:24 GMT Fizzy drinks 'affect children's sleep'.
• Doctors in the United States say soft drinks with caffeine disrupt children's sleep and leave them feeling tired during the day. ...
• Less sleep .
• They recorded their sleep patterns and daily intake of caffeinated drinks and foods. ...
• The doctors found that teenagers who drank larger amounts had disrupted sleep patterns. ...
• They were more likely to wake during the night and to sleep less. In addition, they tended to be more tired during the day compared to those who drank less fizzy drinks. ...
• Writing in the journal Pediatrics, Dr Pollak acknowledged that some teenagers may be drinking caffeine during the day to counteract poor sleep at night. ...
• But he added: "Regardless of whether caffeine use disturbed sleep or was consumed to counteract the daytime effect of interrupted sleep, caffeinated beverages had detectable pharmacologic effects. ...
• He said: "There are no grounds to suppose that fizzy drinks affect sleep. This study on the effect of the consumption of carbonated soft drinks on sleep patterns does not support the conclusion that there is any connection. ...

• Home » Archives » March 2004 » Who Needs Sleep? .
• 03/27/2004: "Who Needs Sleep?".
• So I have decided that I'm not going to sleep all weekend so that I can finish my English report, among other things, and so far, I cannot decide whether or not it's working out. ...

• Saturday, 6 July, 2002, 23:36 GMT 00:36 UK Less sleep may cure tiredness.
• But most people believe they need more sleep, not less. ...
• "When I tried to sleep properly each night, about six or seven hours, I could never wake up properly. ...
• New sleep pattern .
• Margaret Thatcher needed very little sleep.
• According to Professor Ian Hindmarch, Head of Human Psychopharmacology at the University of Surrey in Guildford: "Many people like to claim they only need very small amounts of sleep. ...
• Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher was famous for requiring little sleep. ...
• "I would need to observe Tracey's sleep patterns to check this was not the case. ...
• It's up to each individual to find out how much sleep they need and when .
• And her husband can vouch for her two hours' sleep on alternate nights. ...
• Professor Jim Horne, Director of the Loughborough Sleep Research Unit, Loughborough University, agreed it was true that true that most people underestimate how much they sleep. ...
• "Of course, people can go without sleep for up to three days when under tremendous stress like in military combat. ...
• "Studies have shown however that people who only need very small amounts of sleep often show signs of mania. ...
• "But it's up to each individual to find out how much sleep they need and when," said Professor Hindmarch. ...
• Many scientific studies abound on what is the ideal sleep time. ...
• Exercise at night will make it harder to sleep and depression will increase sleep time. ...

• Less sleep means longer life span, according to a new study .
• Five to six hours of sleep is usually more healthy than eight hours .
• - Eight hours is no longer considered the ideal amount of sleep one should receive each night, according to the largest study ever done on the subject. ...
• University of California-San Diego professor Daniel Kripke, leader of the study, found that people who sleep only six or seven hours each night live longer than those who sleep eight or nine. ...
• "Our main findings were that people who sleep seven, six or five hours a night have nothing to worry about, as long as they are not too tired to work or drive," Kripke said. ...
• Nancy Stockert, chair of the health education section at University of Hawai'i-Manoa health services, said lack of sleep in students can lead to depression and "is associated with academic difficulty. ...
• But Irene Morrow, a UHM freshman who gets about eight hours of sleep a night, said she still feels tired during the day. ...
• Other students who got the recommended hours of sleep also felt tired during the day. ... Hanna Arvidsson, 20, said her six hours of sleep rarely keeps her alert in class. ...
• Those who slept eight or more hours per night had a significantly higher mortality rate, which increases with the amount of sleep over seven hours. ...
• Many sleep experts have been highly critical of the study and its findings. The National Sleep Foundation, a nonprofit organization interested in promoting healthy sleeping habits, responded critically to the study, especially to the assertion that the risks associated with sleeping pills are far more dangerous than the risks associated with insomnia. ...
• "We appreciate all of the students who help us with our research and we look forward to seeing a new generation of researchers who will answer all of the unanswered sleep research questions," he said. ...

• AAO-HNSF: Partial Tonsillectomy For Sleep Disordered Breathing Promises Less Pain .
• AAO-HNSF: Partial Tonsillectomy For Sleep Disordered Breathing Promises Less Pain.
• SAN DIEGO, CA -- September 23, 2002 -- Surgery that only partially removes the tonsil but leaves its capsule intact is effective in treating sleep-disordered breathing in children but results in less postoperative pain than does standard tonsillectomy, say researchers.
• The study subdivided data to look at the conventional tonsillectomies that were intended to treat obstructive sleep disordered breathing in children. ...
• In comparing the partial tonsillectomies to the standard surgeries, less pain, and quicker recovery to normal diet and activities resulted, with statistical significance achieved. ...
• A trend towards less bleeding after the partial removal was evident, "but our statisticians tell us that we will need 1000 kids to show statistical significance," Dr. ...

• Sleep Needs, Patterns and Difficulties of Adolescents: Summary of a Workshop (2000).
• Sleep Needs, Patterns, and Difficulties of Adolescents INTRODUCTION Sleep is not only a biological necessity but also a physiological drive. In today's fast-paced world, though, a good night's sleep is often the first thing to go. The effects of inadequate sleep are more than mere annoy- ances: they affect our mood and how we perform at school, work, and home and behind the wheel. Lost sleep also accumulates over time; the more "sleep debt" an individual incurs, the greater the negative conse- quences, according to researchers in the field (Carskadon and Dement, 1981; Wolfson and Carskadon, 19981. Research on adolescents and sleep has been under way for more than two decades, and there is growing evidence that adolescents are develop- mentally vulnerable to sleep difficulties. To discuss current research in this area and its implications in the policy, public, health, and educational are- nas, the Forum on Adolescence of the Board on Children, Youth, and Fami- lies held a workshop, entitled Sleep Needs, Patterns, and Difficulties of Adolescents, on September 22, 1999. ... The workshop brought together researchers, educators, health care pro- viders, and policy makers to review current findings on adolescent sleep. ...
• 2 SLEEP NEEDS,PATTERNS,AND DIFFICULTIES OFADOLESCENTS burg, chair of the Forum on Adolescence, and William C. Dement, direc- tor of the Sleep Disorders Center at Stanford University, cochaired the meeting. ... " "Adolescence is the time of greatest vulnerability from the standpoint of sleep," Dement, a pioneer in the field of sleep re- search, told workshop participants. Counterproductive adolescent sleep patterns tend to be viewed as part of the culture of the teenage years. But according to Dement and other researchers, the need for sleep does not decrease as individuals go through adolescence (Carskadon, 19821. The amount of sleep that adolescents get drops precipitously, however, making it very difficult for them to avoid chronic sleep loss. Dement asked the workshop participants to consider several questions: How much sleep do adolescents require? What factors contribute to sleep loss in adolescence? What are the consequences of chronic sleep loss in young people? What can be done about it? Through presentations and panel discussions, workshop participants addressed these questions. They summarized results from research over the past two decades on issues such as how much sleep teenagers need and how much they typically get, the sleep patterns of adolescents, and the factors- biological, behavioral, and environmental that influence them. They dis- cussed recent efforts to facilitate meeting the sleep needs of adolescents, including consideration of later starting times for high schools and efforts to educate the public, including parents and youth, on the importance of adequate sleep. Workshop participants acknowledged the complexity of the issue and observed that additional research on the causes and conse- quences of adolescent sleep problems is appropriate. ... It is not intended to provide a comprehensive review of findings from the entire field of research on adolescent sleep.

• Kathy KieliszewskiA new study suggesting that less sleep might mean longer life is great news for A. ...
• Sleep less, live longer?.
• Tips for better sleep .
• Maas, a Cornell University professor who wrote Power Sleep (1999: Random House), offers the following tips for a healthful night's sleep. ...
•    * Try to even out your sleep habits. ...
•    * Don't drink any alcohol within 3 hours of sleep. ...
• Tobacco ruins sleep. ...
•    * And to make up sleep deficits, go to bed earlier, or take "power naps" -- no more than 30 minutes -- at your "mid-day dip," when your biorhythms are low. ...
• Add a good night's sleep to gluttony and the other deadly sins -- swell at the time, but with a nasty way of coming back to bite you. ...
•    An article in last month's Archives of General Psychiatry reported that people who doze eight or more hours a night are more likely to die than the chronically sleep-deprived. ...
•    For the slug-a-bed set, the news that long sleep could be toxic had to come like an early-morning bucket of ice water. ...
•    Still, as with so much in science, the real story may be more complex than headlines that shrilled, "Sleep Less, Live Longer!" .
•    As it turns out, there's little consensus on how much we should sleep. ... Kripke of the University of California/San Diego, cites an earlier report associating mortality with ample snoozing, others in the fractious sleep-research community charge that if nature had its way, we'd all be dozing 10 hours a night. ...
• Sleep a full 8 hours, and your chance of early death rose 13 percent. ...
•    Sleep 10 hours a night, and that jumped an alarming 40 percent for women, 34 percent for men. ...

• Sleep Research .
• Summary: Do we get enough sleep? How much sleep is enough? Health Reporter Rae Fry looks at the latest sleep research and tries to answer some commonly asked questions regarding our sleep habits. ...
• Well unfortunately, I’m only talking about sleep.
• The hectic, technology-driven pace of the western world means that people now average a couple of hours less sleep than they did 100 years ago. But if you haven’t actually got a diagnosable sleep disorder, or even insomnia, is that really going to be harmful? Or is sleep just something we’d all like a bit more of?.
• Reader: The innocent sleep,.
• Reader: What is sleep? Sleep resembles death. ...
• Rae Fry: Sleep. ...
• But how much is enough? Increasingly, there’s a school of thought that says we should be taking sleep a lot more seriously; that if we’re not getting enough, and enough might be quite a lot, then our short-term performance and our long-term health will suffer.
• Professor Stanley Coren from the University of British Columbia in Canada, is the author of a book called ‘The Sleep Thieves’. His premise is that western society is chronically sleep-deprived. ...
• Stanley Coren: Basically it appears that evolution wanted us to have between nine and ten hours worth of sleep out of every 24, and given the fact that in the Western world the average amount of sleep is 7 to 7-1/2 hours, that means that on average we’re about 1-1/2 to 2 hours sleep deprived. ...
• And they punched into the computer when they went to sleep and when they went to bed, and basically they felt that they were sleeping about 10-1/4 hours out of every 24, and that even included Dr Suedfeld, who claims himself that normally he only slept about 7 hours a night. He also of course claimed that he really loved the Arctic, it was wonderful, he felt so invigorated and so forth, and I of course tried to assure him that that was because for the first time in his life he was getting enough sleep.
• Rae Fry: Studies like that one, where people who are free to sleep as much as they like sleep more than usual, seem convincing. But they don’t necessarily mean that more sleep is good for you. ...

• less sleep? .

• Do you know how much of the year 2001 you spent asleep? If you got the right amount of sleep, then you spent a total of about 137 days in dreamland. It's likely that you got much less sleep than that, though: instead of the nine hours a night that adolescents need, you probably got an average of seven. So over the course of 2001, you lost about 30 valuable days of sleep. ...
• It isn't surprising that sometimes you get less sleep than you should. ... But what if you found out that cutting corners on sleep was making you age faster than normal or risk doing badly on your PSAT or SAT? .
• Are you burning the candle at both ends? Are your friends burning the midnight oil or pulling all-nighters to finish papers for school? The modern American notion that we need to cram more and more into each day and that "sleep is for wimps" is leading to an epidemic of grumpy, yawning, accident-prone citizens. People are suffering from sleep debt — and it's serious. ...
• Lack of sleep is proving to have enormous consequences for our society. Estimates place the economic cost of sleep deprivation at between $100 billion and $150 billion annually in terms of illness, accidents and loss of life, and overall loss of productivity on the job. ...
• What happens when a person doesn't get enough sleep? Sleep deprivation can: .
• In a poll conducted in 2001, the National Sleep Foundation found that 63% of American adults do not get the eight hours of sleep they need each night. The average adult American gets about seven hours of sleep. This compares with an average of nine hours in 1900 when the absence of electric lights in the home made it more likely that people went to sleep when it got dark. ...
• The adolescent brain has surprised sleep researchers. Contrary to what was expected, many teenagers prefer to be up later at night and then sleep later in the morning. ... You may be trying to force your body to sleep on a schedule that it doesn't want to follow! .

• Sleep Disturbances.
• The Science of Sleep and Fatigue.
• The scientific community has discovered the structure of sleep, the role of circadian rhythms, and the effects of sleep deprivation. Researchers have also investigated the benefits of sleep management including a napping study by Dinges (1995). ...
• A recent book summarizing the effects of sleep and performance cited over 400 scientific studies investigating the topic. Many of these studies examined the effects of sleep, sleep deprivation, napping, and alertness on performance. ... The study of sleep is no exception. ...
• Moreover, while several studies have produced clear results in the laboratory, other findings may be less readily transferred to an actual work place environment. ...
• Three areas that have been investigated extensively have to do with clinical sleep disturbances, circadian rhythms, the effects of fatigue on performance and alertness, and the ways of measuring alertness.
• Clinical Sleep Disturbances.
• Fatigue and alertness can also be affected by the presence of various biological and physiological conditions that affect sleep and wakefulness. The disturbances in sleep and wakefulness associated with working irregular hours are not considered biological or clinical disturbances of sleep. These pathological disturbances in sleep and wakefulness must meet various diagnostic criteria in order to qualify as clinical conditions.
• There are several different types of sleep disturbance: insomnia, which refers to too little sleep; hypersomnia which refers to too much sleep; and parasomnia which refers to deviation from normal sleep patterns. Some authorities estimate that about one third of the population suffers from disturbed sleep (Bixler, Kales, Soldatos, Kales, & Healy, 1976; Liljenberg, Almquist, Hetta, Roos, Agren, 1988).
• According to these specialists, in order to meet the criteria of chronically disturbed sleep a person must suffer some form of sleep disturbance at least every other day for a period of three weeks. These disturbances must involve either taking to much time to fall asleep (more than 45 minutes), repeated waking (more than 5 times per night), waking up too early (more than 60 minutes) or getting one and a half hours less than the required 8 hours of sleep. ...

• :) I gotta go sleep now, and won't be free to check in on the site until after 11 am (1900 UTC). ... Note that page view counters, main pages, and all special pages remain enabled on the less-trafficked other languages. ...

• Alcohol - Sleep.
• Importance of Sleep    Nightcap    Insomnia    Apnea    Snoring   .
• Sleep Disruption    Sleep Deprivation    Herbs for Sleep   .
• Melatonin    Article    The Importance of Sleep and the Need to Avoid Alcohol.
• How much sleep do you need? Dr. ... After snoozing off their accumulative sleep debt (about 17. ... Older persons may need less sleep. Lack of sleep is a source of stress that is detrimental at best and deadly at worst.
• {“How to Save Yourself from Anger and Depression,” Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD, Women’s Health Letter, 2001} Even in small doses, alcohol can cause early sedation or sleepiness, awaking during the night, and suppression of REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. REM sleep is the dreaming stage of sleep, however, when REM sleep occurs near wakefulness, it can cause hallucinations.
• {"Alcohol Effects on the Brain," Alcohol Research Center, LSUHSC - Lousiana State University Health Sciences Center, August 2002} Sixty million Americans have a sleep disorder. ... Men and women over 60 experience it more frequently, possibly because the body produces less sleep-inducing melatonin with age.
• If you are surviving with less than five hours, your risk jumps another 52%.
• 2002} Sleep loss is a common problem in America; one of the sleep tips is to avoid alcohol in the late afternoon and evening. Sleep loss may interfere with the body’s ability to metabolize carbohydrates and cause high blood levels of glucose, a basic sugar {Lancet}. ...
• {“Paying the price for cheating on sleep,” The New York Times, Dec. ...

• HOME | Kristi's Good HealthEmail This Story   Print This Story Poll: Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep.
• Road Rage, Obesity Linked To Lack Of Sleep.
• WASHINGTON -- Some of the day-to-day trials that Americans face may be the result of not enough sleep, according to a new study. ...
• The study, conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, found that 47 million adults may be putting themselves at risk for injury, and health and behavior problems because they aren't meeting their minimum sleep need. ...
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• "Some of the problems we face as a society -- from road rage to obesity -- may be linked to lack of sleep or poor sleep," said Richard Gelula, the foundation's executive director. ...
• Respondents said they sleep an average of 6. ... 5 hours per night on weekends, with 39 percent sleeping less than seven hours on weeknights. The overall sleep habits of Americans have remained fairly consistent since the first survey in 1998, although the 2002 results show what may be a slight trend toward less sleep, according to the researchers. ...
• "This is the first time we've actually linked people's mood to their sleep habits in our annual nationwide poll," said James Walsh, the foundation's president. "Scientists have documented the link between sleep deprivation, mood and performance in the lab before. But this is the first large-scale view of the extent to which insufficient sleep plays out in the real world each day. ...

• Insomnia means poor sleep. It may mean not being able to get off to sleep, waking up too early, waking in the night or not having a refreshing nights sleep. Poor sleep may cause daytime tiredness, poor concentration, irritability or just not functioning well. About 1 in 5 adults do not get as much sleep as they would like. ...
• What is a normal amount of sleep? .
• Different people need different amounts of sleep. Some people • function well and are not tired during the day with just 3-4 hours sleep a night. ... It is normal to need less sleep as you become older. 6 hours sleep is average for people aged over 70. ...
• Understanding normal sleep.
• A normal nights sleep has three main parts. ...
• *  Quiet sleep. ...
• *  REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. REM sleep is when the brain is very active but the body is totally limp apart from the eyes which move rapidly. Most dreaming occurs during REM sleep. ...
• About 4-5 periods of quiet sleep alternate with 4-5 periods of REM sleep throughout the night. Short periods of waking commonly occur between the different types of sleep. ...

• Poll: Sleep Problems Compound Health of Older Americans .
• Untreated Sleep Problems Compound Health Problems of Older .
• Americans According to New National Sleep Foundation Poll .
• National Sleep Foundation .
• older adults are very healthy and have normal sleep patterns, .
• frequent untreated sleep problems may be interfering with the .
• according to a poll released today by the National Sleep .
• Exploding many common myths that associate poor sleep and .
• less sleep with aging, the 2003 Sleep in America poll shows that .
• older adults typically do not sleep less than their younger .
• counterparts, averaging about seven hours of sleep each night. ...
• suffer from frequent sleep problems that if ignored, can .
• Poor sleep is also .
• "The 2003 Sleep in America poll indicates that poor health .
• country report sleep problems, providing an important wake up .
• call that identifying and treating these sleep problems must be .

• Melissa is causing less sleep Posted by: Kongen on Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:02 AM .
• It is difficult to sleep when the person next to you is in pain, so i have tried to comfort her the best i can giving her massasge. As a result of this i have overslept for work a couple of times and even fallen a sleep in the train one morning. ...
• Sunday i am going to sleep late! :o) Have a wonderful weekend The girls and me .
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• « HOME | Health Watch 4Email This Story    Print This Story Poll: Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep.
• Road Rage, Obesity Linked To Lack Of Sleep.
• WASHINGTON -- Some of the day-to-day trials that Americans face may be the result of not enough sleep, according to a new study. ...
• The study, conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, found that 47 million adults may be putting themselves at risk for injury, and health and behavior problems because they aren't meeting their minimum sleep need. ...
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• "Some of the problems we face as a society -- from road rage to obesity -- may be linked to lack of sleep or poor sleep," said Richard Gelula, the foundation's executive director. ...
• Respondents said they sleep an average of 6. ... 5 hours per night on weekends, with 39 percent sleeping less than seven hours on weeknights. The overall sleep habits of Americans have remained fairly consistent since the first survey in 1998, although the 2002 results show what may be a slight trend toward less sleep, according to the researchers. ...
• "This is the first time we've actually linked people's mood to their sleep habits in our annual nationwide poll," said James Walsh, the foundation's president. "Scientists have documented the link between sleep deprivation, mood and performance in the lab before. But this is the first large-scale view of the extent to which insufficient sleep plays out in the real world each day. ...

• « HOME | HealthEmail This Story    Print This Story Poll: Americans Don't Get Enough Sleep.
• Road Rage, Obesity Linked To Lack Of Sleep.
• WASHINGTON -- Some of the day-to-day trials that Americans face may be the result of not enough sleep, according to a new study. ...
• The study, conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, found that 47 million adults may be putting themselves at risk for injury, and health and behavior problems because they aren't meeting their minimum sleep need. ...
• SLEEP Sleep Statistics.
• Sleep Myths.
• How Much Sleep Do You Get?.
• Do You Take Naps? STUDY Less Sleep Better?.
• Sleep Tips For Children.
• Why Sleep Is So Important .
• "Some of the problems we face as a society -- from road rage to obesity -- may be linked to lack of sleep or poor sleep," said Richard Gelula, the foundation's executive director. ...
• Respondents said they sleep an average of 6. ... 5 hours per night on weekends, with 39 percent sleeping less than seven hours on weeknights. The overall sleep habits of Americans have remained fairly consistent since the first survey in 1998, although the 2002 results show what may be a slight trend toward less sleep, according to the researchers. ...
• "This is the first time we've actually linked people's mood to their sleep habits in our annual nationwide poll," said James Walsh, the foundation's president. "Scientists have documented the link between sleep deprivation, mood and performance in the lab before. But this is the first large-scale view of the extent to which insufficient sleep plays out in the real world each day. ...

• Conquering Sleep Apnea.
• SLEEP WELL, FEEL BETTER.
• Sleep in Older People.
• We often assume that it is normal for older people to get less sleep during the night than younger people. This assumption often is further explained by the assumption that “older people don’t need as much sleep. ...
• It is true that people over 50 years of age typically do get less than seven hours of sleep during the night, compared with eight hours for people 19 to 30 years old. ... However, older people also appear to take more frequent daytime naps than young people, so an older person’s total amount of sleep during a 24-hour period may be very close to the eight hours obtained by a younger person.
• However, the quality of sleep that older people get is not as good as it is in younger people. The quality of the sleep is diminished when a night’s sleep is broken up by wakefulness. Older people’s sleep is lighter and more fragmented by periods of wakefulness than is the sleep of younger people.
• Older people experience less deep sleep. They get almost as much REM sleep as younger people, but it is less intense.
• Older people may be attempting to compensate for sleep lost during the night by napping. In some individuals naps may make up for the amount of sleep lost, but they do not make up for the loss of sleep quality at night. In fact, in some people naps may simply compound the problem, both by making the person less sleepy at night and by confusing the person’s internal clock.
• The significance of these differences between the sleep of older people and younger people is not understood. No one knows exactly why we need deep sleep and REM sleep, so the meaning of the decrease in these stages of sleep with age remains to be discovered.

• Are you getting enough sleep?.
• 1 hours of sleep per night. ...
• 'Early awakening has been associated with greater powers of concentration, being busier and experiencing more hassles through the day, as well as having more anger and less energy at the end of the day.
• 'On the other hand, late wakers were more leisurely and less busy. ...
• The one area about sleep where the experts are in full agreement is that there is no minimum number of hours that we should all spend sleeping before endangering our health. ...
• 1 hours of sleep per 24-hour period is the average requirement for adults. But the need for sleep in the group ranged from just 6 to 10 hours.
• Although she made millions feel guilty for lying in, it isn't that unusual for people in their 60s to cope with a short night's sleep. Most of us sleep less as we get older. ...
• Do people sleep less than they used to in the past?.
• It is a myth of our times that we are all so active, busy and stressed that we are sleeping less than a century ago. According to Professor Jim Horne of the Sleep Research Centre, Loughborough University, it is simply not true. ... I suspect many people slept less in the early 1900s because they worked longer hours and had poorer sleeping conditions,' said Dr Jim Horne. ...
• Would it be better for us all to sleep more?.
• Research has shown according to Dr Jim Horne that if we are given the opportunity to sleep more we will do so. In a study it has been shown that if people stay in bed two hours longer than in their normal routine, they will on average sleep for an extra hour. Is this proof that we are all sleep deprived? Dr Horne doesn't think so. ...

• The Importance of Sleep .
• Why is Sleep Important? .
• The human body is programmed to sleep. ... The circadian rhythm maintains our sleep-wake cycle. ... Dinges "the basic sleep drive and the circadian clock interact to produce normal wakefulness during the day". The human sleep-wake cycle is running by about 16 weeks of age and is free running (Center for Biological Timing, n. ... Our sleep-wake cycle can be influenced by zeitgebers, which are "environmental time cues such as sunlight, food, noise, or social interaction that usually help reset the biological clock to a 24 hour day" (Center for Biological Timing, n. ...
• Consequences of Sleep Deprivation .
• Research consistently shows negative effects related to lack of sleep in almost every aspect of life. Sleep is important because it allows the body to rest, which facilitates metabolic and endocrine function and enables offline memory processing (Carpenter, 2001). Sleep deprivation may also lead to a weakening of the immune system, which predisposes a person to infection (Katz, 1999). Sleep deprivation may also cause allergies and autoimmune conditions to worsen (Katz, 1999). ...
• Research has already shown that sleep deprivation can impair high-level executive thinking. Also, evidence suggests that sleep deprivation can also affect performance on cognitive tasks. Thus sleep is important to the process of learning and memory. In fact research has found that sleep is important in the process of memory consolidation, which is the strengthening of learning that occurs during the day (Carpenter, 2001). ...

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