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• Sleep less, live longer, study finds.
• The increased risk rose to 15% for participants reporting more than eight hours or less than 4 1/2. ...
• "People who sleep five, six or seven hours have nothing to worry about. There is no evidence that people need eight hours of sleep. ...
• He said the study shows that longer sleep is a risk factor for cancer as well as heart disease and stroke, but more research is needed to determine whether sleeping longer should be added to the growing list of one-time pleasures — like smoking and alcohol — now deemed hazardous to your health.
• "Many studies show that if people don't get adequate sleep they are very sleepy during the day. Their ability to perform tasks is impaired, the risk of accident is higher and people are crabby," said James Walsh, a sleep scientist and president of the National Sleep Foundation.
• "Neither in terms of health or survival is there any evidence that eight hours of sleep is better than six or seven. ...
• Walsh said the weight of evidence still suggests that the average adult needs 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 hours of sleep to be wide awake, energetic and alert during the day.
• The study found little, if any, connection between death rates and insomnia, which it said patients commonly complain of even when their sleep duration is within normal ranges.
• The research, which addressed sleep issues as part of a broader cancer prevention study done with the American Cancer Society, is published in Friday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
• An accompanying commentary by Dr Daniel Buysse and Dr Mary Ganguli of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh also cautioned that sleep deprivation can raise accident rates.
• People with as little as five hours of sleep lived longer than participants with eight hours or more per night.
• The study was not designed to say how much longer a person who gets between five and seven hours of sleep will live when compared to people who average eight or more hours.
• The Sleep Foundation's Walsh said the study does not prove that people who get seven hours of sleep have longer lives — it shows only a statistical relationship.
• "One shouldn't conclude that there aren't any negatives to either insomnia or short sleep," he added. ... If quality of life is dramatically worse, I think most people would choose longer sleep as opposed to living in a fog of sleepiness. ...

• Healthy Sleep: Recharging Your Batteries.
• Sleep is a universal phenomenon. ... Even unborn babies sleep -- about sixteen hours a day in the womb. Some scientists believe sleep is a time for the body to repair and balance itself -- yet the body also does this while awake.
• Sleep is in many ways a mystery. ... " During deep sleep, the body releases most of its growth hormone. Studies show that children with sleep apnea not only sleep poorly, they release less growth hormone and are shorter than their peers. ...
• A dry medical definition of sleep might be as follows: unconsciousness from which a person can be aroused, as contrasted to coma, from which a person cannot be awakened. ...
• Sleep is actually a highly active state. Until the 1930s, most scientists believed sleep was passive, and that in sleep people simply shut down and stopped responding to their senses. Now it appears that sleep is a biochemical web of enormous complexity. ... Cutting a specific part of the brain stem, in fact, leads to a brain that never goes to sleep. Centers deep within the brain stem actively inhibit other parts of the brain and allow sleep to occur.
• Older people are told that they simply need less sleep. Unfortunately, the truth is that the quality of sleep tends to ebb with age. Sleep changes with age, and the fact that older people have trouble sleeping could actually be part of the degenerative process of aging. ... A thirty-year-old gets only about half as much deep sleep as a twenty-year-old. By age eighty-five, the average person spends about 20 percent of the night awake -- though a contributing cause may be that the inactive elderly check in for more sleep than they actually need. And sleep may be more elusive for older people because of the "common" aches and pains associated with aging, as well as emphysema and other respiratory difficulties. ... One study found that 50 percent of healthy people over age seventy have sleep irregularities.

• 07/26/2002 Archived Entry: "new av, less sleep" .
• I had to move that little sprite girl like 800 times before i got it right! im gonna cry, i only got 4 hours of sleep ;_;.

• The NVisible: Solara & the 11:11 » The 11:11 Message Board » Mastering the Art of Surfing » I need less sleep, yet I cannot say I'm sleep deprived!.
• I need less sleep, yet I cannot say I'm sleep deprived! .
• My sleep pattern is all over the place. I find I only need roughly four hours sleep, sometimes less, yet I am able to function normally. ...
• Don't need sleep - Well. ...
• It's interesting that you can function on five or less hours of sleep. ... If I had that amount of sleep, I probably would audition for the Michael Jackson video "THRILLER". ...
• It just seems like I could not get enough of this cosmic "healing inducement" called sleep. If I had less than eight hours, 'watch out'. ...

• Sleep imbalance linked to heart disease.
• Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston found that women who are chronically sleep deprived or who routinely sleep more than the usual eight hours seriously increase their risk of developing heart disease. Sleep shouldn’t really be considered a luxury, according to the study’s principal author, Dr. ... “Sleep is probably one of the pillars to a healthy lifestyle. Too little sleep puts stress on the body. ...
• Women who are chronically sleep deprived or who routinely sleep more than the usual eight hours seriously increase their risk of developing heart disease. ...
• After accounting for other factors that might raise the risk of heart disease in people who sleep too little or too much, such as snoring, smoking and weight, the scientists still found that how long the women slept mattered. ...
• Women who reported sleeping 5 hours or less per night were 45 % more likely to have heart problems. ...
• Compared with women who slept eight hours, women who reported sleeping five hours or less per night were 45 percent more likely to have heart problems. Women who slept six hours per night had an 18 percent increased risk and seven hours of sleep put the women at a 9 percent higher risk. ...
• He suspects some unaccounted factors related to sleeping long hours, such as obstructive sleep apnea, may explain the findings. ...
• Men have to pay attention to their sleep patterns, too. ... Ayas acknowledged that the findings have prompted him to increase his sleep time from six hours to seven or eight hours a night. ...
• “Shortened sleep can induce changes in the body that would promote high blood pressure,…obesity…and diabetes. ...
• Previous research shows even short-term sleep deprivation can adversely affect heart disease risk factors. ... Jim Walsh who serves as president of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), “shortened sleep can induce changes in the body that would promote high blood pressure, …obesity…and diabetes. In the long run, I think we will find an association between short sleep and some major medical illnesses. The new study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, is one of the first to look at the health effects of too-little sleep over a long period of time. ...

• Doctors characterize insomnia as an impairment of sleep that reduces daytime function. The impairment of sleep can include the excessive time of wakefulness, but also non-restorative sleep. Defining the type of insomnia is based on two factors of time - either by the frequency of nights with poor sleep or by the most common time that the person is awake during the night.
• After the stress passes or a person discovers how to cope, sleep returns to normal. Short-term insomnia involves one to three weeks of poor sleep. ... Sometimes substances such as caffeine, decongestant/sinus medicines, or prescribed medications can cause a significant disturbance in sleep. ...
• Sleep onset insomnia is most commonly due to anxiety. The delay to fall off to sleep is often experienced by the person as lasting 30 minutes or longer. Sleep maintenance insomnia represents unwanted wakefulness later in the night and may be due to medical illness, primary sleep disorders, or depression. Sleep maintenance insomnia can involve one or more episodes of wakefulness or multiple brief awakenings. ...
• Sleep specialists are not generally concerned with the specific number of minutes that a person is awake. Since people have different needs for sleep as mentioned in Sleep 101, and it is difficult for an insomnia sufferer to determine when he or she is asleep, the specialist is most interested in the impact of poor sleep on the person's daytime function. For some, the minutes of lost sleep may be small, but the level of fatigue, tiredness, mental slowing, reduced concentration, memory lapses, irritability, disinterest, decreased motivation and reduced performance may be significant.
• Although each person will experience lost sleep in their own way, research has found that certain individuals are more likely to experience insomnia. ... Less than 3% of children report any serious problem of insomnia. The adolescent and young adult are more likely to be sleep deprived through a conscious decision to reduce their hours of sleep than to experience an insomnia problem (about 9% of adolescents report insomnia). ... By age 80 or older, over 45% will report that on three or more nights per week, sleep is poor.

• Sleep disorders are disturbances in falling asleep, staying asleep, or duration of sleep or abnormal sleep behaviors such as night terrors or sleepwalking.
• Sleep is necessary for survival and good health, but why sleep is needed or exactly how it benefits people is not fully understood. Individual requirements for sleep vary widely; healthy adults may need as few as 4 hours or as many as 9 hours of sleep every day. Most people sleep at night, but many must sleep during the day to accommodate work schedules. This situation often leads to sleep disorders. Most sleep disorders are common.
• Even some food elements or additives such as caffeine, strong spices, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) may affect sleep.
• Sleep is not a uniform state; it has several distinct stages through which it normally cycles five or six times every night. Sleep progresses from stage 1 (the lightest level, during which the sleeper can be awakened easily) to stage 4 (the deepest level, during which waking the sleeper is difficult). ... Besides these four stages, there is a form of sleep accompanied by rapid eye movements (REM) and behavioral activity. During REM sleep, electrical activity in the brain is unusually high, somewhat resembling that of wakefulness. The eye movement and brain wave changes that accompany REM sleep can be recorded electrically on an electroencephalogram (EEG).
• In REM sleep, the rate and depth of breathing increase, but the muscles are greatly relaxed–more so than during the deepest levels of non-REM sleep. Most dreaming occurs during REM and stage 3 sleep, while most talking during sleep, night terrors, and sleepwalking occur during stages 3 and 4. During a normal night's sleep, REM sleep immediately follows each of the five or six cycles of four-stage non-REM sleep, but it can occur at any of the stages.
• Insomnia is difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep or a disturbance in sleep that makes people feel as if they've had insufficient sleep when they awaken.

• Less Sleep .
• Less Sleep .
•  We've all heard that we need to get 8 hours of sleep to function properly throughout a day. ...
•   But you might live a bit longer, if you get a bit less. ...
•   But those who slept less than four-and-a-half hours, or more than 10 hours, each night led the shortest lives. ...

•  You are in: Problems Treatments N - Z of Problems Sleep Disorders .
• Sleep Disorders.
• 26 March: More than two-thirds of children have a computer, games machine or TV in their bedroom and are losing out on sleep as a result, research suggests. The poll of 1,000 parents also showed a fifth of young children get two to five hours less sleep a night than their parents did at that age. ... Dr Luci Wiggs, research fellow at the Oxford child and adolescent psychiatry unit, said: "This is the first generation of children to face such a plethora of alternatives to going to sleep and the long-term consequences in terms of physical and mental health for both the child and their family can only be guessed at. "What we do know is that impaired sleep quality or quantity may compromise children's physical health, academic achievements and mental health. ...
• 16 March: A chemical found naturally in the brain could be used to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy, US scientists say. ...
• The study revealed that things associated with the headaches included: anxiety, depression, insomnia, sleep-related breathing disorder, hypertension, circadian rhythm disorder, musculoskeletal diseases, the use of medication and alcohol consumption. "Because sleep disturbance of any kind, especially insomnia, disrupts physical functioning to some extent, the risk of any health problem increases at least a little with a chronic sleep problem," psychology professor Kristine Jacquin said. ...
• 24 February: A new study that tracked 2,259 students as they moved through middle school found strong links between sleep patterns and moods. Students who got less sleep were more likely to report signs of depression and a negative self-image, according to the study, which was published in the journal Child Development. The study also found that as sleep patterns changed, so did emotional states: Students who got more sleep reported improvements, while students who got less were more likely to report problems. Students who got less sleep in sixth grade had worse grades that year, but changes in sleep patterns did not appear to have an effect on performance in seventh and eighth grade. ... The girls' average in eighth grade was seven hours 17 minutes, one minute less than the boys' average and down from eight hours in sixth grade. In sixth grade, boys averaged 46 minutes less than girls. ...
• 2 February: Some eye diseases can trigger serious sleep disorders, a study by doctors in the United States suggests. ...

• Sleep. ...
• Sleep, natural state of rest characterized by reduced body movement and decreased awareness of surroundings. Sleep is distinguished from other sleeplike states, for instance, hibernation or coma, because it is easily interrupted by external stimulation, such as a loud noise. While the exact purpose of sleep remains a mystery, sleep researchers have made enormous strides in understanding how sleep occurs in humans and other animals, and the nature of sleep disorders. ...
• All mammals and birds sleep, but scientists are unsure if reptiles, fish, insects, and other life forms sleep. Total sleep amounts differ greatly across species. In general, large mammals tend to sleep less than small mammals. The giraffe and elephant, for instance, sleep only 2 to 4 hours a day, while bats, opossums, and armadillos sleep 18 hours a day or more. ...
• While sleeping, most animals close their eyes and adopt particular positions referred to as sleep postures. Humans typically lie down to sleep, for example, while giraffes kneel and bend their long necks around to rest their heads in the crook of their hind knee. Some animals, such as dolphins, can sleep while they are moving.
• Scientists measure sleep by placing metal electrodes on the scalp to record the electrical activity of the brain. This procedure, called electroencephalography (EEG), enables sleep researchers to evaluate levels of brain activity at different times during sleep. ...
• KINDS OF SLEEP.
• In the 1950s American physiologists Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman reported that periods of eye movement and twitching occur during sleep. They named these periods rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Aserinsky and Kleitman found that when subjects were awakened during REM sleep, they reported vivid dreams. Scientists believe that REM sleep is closely related to wakefulness because brain wave activity during REM sleep is marked by short, rapid wave patterns similar to brain wave activity of the waking state.

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• God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last; the sorrows of a man's spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter motion, and descend into the grave to rest and ease our wearied limbs; for then only we shall sleep quietly, when those fetters are knocked off, which not only bound our souls in prison, but also ate the flesh till the very bones opened the secret garments of their cartilages, discovering their nakedness and sorrow. ...

• Sleep Is the New Status Symbol.
• Bezos, 35 years old, gets eight hours of sleep a night.
• A restful, rejuvenating, even luxurious, eight solid hours of sleep a night.
• Sleep, that rare commodity in stressed-out America, is the new status symbol. Once derided as a wimpish failing -- the same 1980s overachievers who cried "Lunch is for Losers" also believed "Sleep is for Suckers" -- slumber is now being touted as the restorative companion to the creative executive mind.
• co-founder Marc Andreesen, who likes at least eight hours of sleep a night, are a world away from the vintage workaholism of a Michael Milken or the nonstop deal-making and partying of a Donald Trump, who used to brag about indulging in only a few hours of nightly downtime. Now, sleep is a perk of the truly successful, a privilege of membership in that elite stratosphere of people secure in the knowledge that the show can't start until they arrive.
• Andreesen has learned his sleep-performance ratio like a computer algorithm: "I can get by on 7 1/2 without too much trouble. ... " And, on weekends, he indulges in 12-plus hours of sleep. ...
• The result: Nearly two-thirds of adults get fewer than the eight hours of sleep a night during the week that the average American adult requires, compared with fewer than half of Americans in 1960, according to the National Sleep Foundation, Washington, D. ...
• The upshot of this mass sleep deprivation? Many Americans are yawning their way through life. ...
• When she came to New York from Down Under in 1996 and was determined to have breakfast, lunch and dinner with everyone in the publishing world, she used to scrape by on six hours of sleep.
• "It's very much part of my agenda to get enough sleep now that I'm more in control of things," she says.
• Richard Edelman, 44, whose Edelman Public Relations Worldwide has 1,600 employees, prides himself on getting seven to eight hours of nightly sleep. ...
• Another reason so many top executives are getting more sleep: because they can. ...
• Sleep As Escape.

• SLEEP FROM A TO ZzzZzzZzzZzzZzzZzzZzz.
• Sleep. It's as necessary to our well-being as air, water, and food, but many people don't understand how important sleep is. And, by some estimates, as much as 50% of the American population doesn't get enough sleep. Most people need 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night to function optimally, but according to a national survey, most get only 7, and many get 6 hours or less per night during the week. ...
• How aging affects our sleep.
• You may have heard that as we grow older, we need less sleep. Not true! In fact, as we age, many of us get less sleep, but our need for sleep remains the same throughout adulthood. It's just that getting the sleep we need becomes more difficult. ... Whatever the cause, when we get older, we find it harder to get to sleep, we wake up more frequently—and we have a harder time getting back to sleep. ...
• What happens when we sleep.
• Sleep, like other bodily functions, is a complex process with its own dynamics. The descent into sleep involves four stages, beginning with a light sleep called Stage 1. ... During stages 3 and 4, you are in deep sleep, when brain waves are large and slow. Once you reach this deep sleep stage, your body is ready for the highly active stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movements called REM sleep. ... About 20% to 25% of your sleep is REM sleep, and each occurrence lasts from 5 minutes to more than an hour. ...

• SLEEP.
• Ah Sleep!: One of life’s great pleasures and one of life’s great challenges.
• Sleep problems with children are one of the most common complaints of parents. No parent can survive childhood without at some point suffering from issues related to sleep. Parents and young children almost without exception sleep too little.
• And even when parents are getting as much sleep as they want, invariably it is at a cost of allowing their children to get less sleep than they need. Indeed, even if the parents ultimately get the sleep that they need, it comes at the price that they are getting less life than they should. ...
• Yes, in general we are either not sleeping enough or we are spending way too much time on getting everybody to sleep enough.
• Sleep should be natural. Sleep should be welcome. ... We either need to sleep more or spend less time getting kids to sleep.
• First of all let us say that we routinely deal with sleep problems that generally have long histories. ... Because these techniques work well in these cases, we are utterly confident that they will work in less difficult ones. ... If so, go with it! Our only caution is that you should make sure that your approach results in more sleep for you and for your child and that over time your child is doing more and you are doing less. ...
• WHY WE CARE ABOUT SLEEP:.
• Sleep deprivation is probably the single greatest health problem in the world. ... But we often ignore the insidious almost “mosquito-like” annoyance of sleep deprivation. But sleep deprivation is a very serious health problem. ... Every night you or your child are deprived of sleep that your body would normally need, you incur a “sleep debt. ” The collective sleep debt of the world dwarfs the National Debt. This sleep debt will ultimately be paid. ... The pervasive effect of sleep loss is incalculable.

• What Will Help Your Baby Sleep Better?.
• The reason is that baby need a lot of help from you in order to fall sleep. ...

• » View the last 14 days of stories you have missed Survey Reveals Nation Of Sleep Deprived Children .
• Two thirds of UK children may be sleep deprived yet 80% of parents think their kids get enough shut-eye.
• Kids build up an average sleep 'deficit' of seven months by seventh birthday.
• One in eight children get less sleep than recommended for adults.
• Children of working parents get the least sleep.
• Survey results published today (May 1st 2003) reveal a nation of sleep deprived children, with as many as two thirds of UK children not getting enough 'shut eye', the potential consequences on their behaviour and performance at home and school being far-reaching. Conducted amongst over 500 parents by leading bed manufacturer, Silentnight Beds, to coincide with the launch of a unique new range of children's beds, the research reveals widespread ignorance about how much sleep infants require and bedtime routines more influenced by TV schedules and parents working hours than children's sleep needs. ...
• According to the findings the nation's children should expect to have built up a cumulative sleep deficit of seven months – over 4,500 hours – by their seventh birthday with two thirds of two to six year olds getting significantly less sleep than recommended by experts. One in eight children actually get less sleep than the amount recommended for adults, rising to one in four amongst children of working parents. And although the majority of parents agreed that lack of sleep impaired their children's performance and behaviour, two thirds were not even aware of how much sleep their children should get.
• There is a growing body of scientific evidence which shows that adequate night time sleep is just as important as healthy eating and exercise for children's development. Sleep is recognised as a powerful modifier of behaviour, performance and personality and it is thought that sleep deficiency may harm neurological development and can contribute to school related problems such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as well as being responsible for mood changes and 'crankiness'. ...
• Recent research conducted by scientists in Israel showed that even losing an hour's sleep a night can have a noticeable effect on a child's mental performance, whilst previous studies have suggested that children today are getting less and less sleep over the years. Some experts believe that chronically tired children become chronically tired adults, becoming less able to cope with life's stresses, less resilient and less playful. ...
• The study, conducted for Silentnight Beds as part of extensive consumer research during the development of the My First Bed™ range, also investigated typical bedtime routines and activities and found a clear correlation between televisions, videos and computers in the bedroom and lack of sleep. ... Youngsters with televisions in their bedrooms were likely to get less sleep than those without and were two and a half times more likely to get eight hours or less. ...

• Too much sleep may shorten your lifespan, according to this MSNBC article. Assuming that this data is correct, I'd still rather deal with less time alive (but fully alert) vs. ...
• "The acid test for enough sleep is whether you are sleepy or alert throughout the day. ...
• "Those who slept 8 hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die within six years than those who got 6½ to 7½ hours of sleep. The increased risk was more than 15 percent for those who reported getting more than 8½ hours or less than about 4 hours nightly. ... also, i do believe that older folks sleep longer than younger folks, further scewing the data. ...
• People with pre-existing medical complications or poor health may sleep more producing the effect. ...
• The National Sleep Foundation says 25% of women suffer from clinically significant daytime sleepiness. An Atlantic article on American attitudes toward sleep. A study on the biochemical changes induced by sleep dep.
• mich9139 -- I think you've got it backwards -- increased age doesn't mean an increased need for sleep. ... actually older people tend to sleep less at night (though they make up for it by napping), probably because the assorted aches and pains that go with aging keep waking you up. ... As for subjects dying during the study -- the article doesn't go into it, but i'd guess they'd compensate for this by using actuarial tables: compare the average death rate for people of a particular age, with the rate of those the same age in your study who are light sleepers, and with those who sleep a lot, and see whether you get different results. ...
• Seeing that these results fly in the face of all previous sleep research, I will take them with a grain of salt and await further studies.
• I sleep whenever I'm sleepy and wake up whenever I do, generally three hours a time, twice a day. Sometimes longer, sometimes less. ... )and falls in with me on my daytime sleep, making about nine. ... With sleep, YMMV makes absolute sense. I had insomnia all my life, even went to a specialist in London, took every possible drug, but this way, accidentally discovered since I married(for the obvious reasons) I just sleep like a baby, with no drugs, apart from the obligatory nightcap and a quick spell on plastic. ...

• During sleep, your brain rests.
• You cannot learn to function normally with one or two fewer hours of sleep a night than you need.
• Boredom makes you feel sleepy, even if you have had enough sleep.
• Resting in bed with your eyes closed cannot satisfy your body's need for sleep.
• The older you get, the fewer hours of sleep you need.
• Sleep disorders are mainly due to worry or psychological problems.
• Most sleep disorders go away even without treatment.
• During sleep, your brain rests.
• An active brain during sleep prepares us for alertness and peak functioning the next day.
• You cannot learn to function normally with one or two fewer hours of sleep a night than you need.
• Sleep need is biological. While children need more sleep than adults, how much sleep any individual needs is genetically determined. Most adults need eight hours of sleep to function at their best. How to determine what you need? Sleep until you wake on your own. ... Feel rested? That's your sleep need. You can teach yourself to sleep less, but not to need less sleep. ...

• Health > Centers > Stress Center > Stress Relief > Sleep .
• Sleep.
• Sleep.
• Sleep Disorders Center .
• Fact: The late stage of sleep - sometimes missed by early risers - can boost by 20% your acquisition of coordination crucial for playing a sport, a musical instrument, or any fine motor control. ...
• Fact: Sleep strengthens the nerve circuits that underlie learning and memory, allowing the brain to make and consolidate new neural connections. ...
• Fact: Missing out on sleep seriously impairs the body's ability to process blood sugar, impeding the action of insulin much as in diabetes. Sleep deprivation may be an important contributor to obesity. ...
• Restricting your sleep by a mere two hours a night for one week provokes the process of inflammation, which may set people up for heart disease. ...
• Fact: Sleep deprivation curtails your ability to come up with creative solutions to life's challenges. ...
• No doubt you know by now that sleep doesn't just put the brain on hold while you lay in bed. Your brain is very active during sleep. Sleep organizes the memories of habits, actions, and skills learned during the day. Sleep gives you the mental energy to master complex tasks and the ability to concentrate. ...
• Sleep is so important that your brain remembers how much of it you get. And it compensates for sleep loss by allowing you to fall asleep faster and staying asleep longer the next night. ...

• Sleep Smart is. ...
• to help people sleep better. ...
• this, and customers have come to rely on the Sleep Smart.
• All of the people who work for Sleep Smart are professionals,.
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• Sleep: A Dynamic Activity.
• Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our daily lives. We now know that our brains are very active during sleep. Moreover, sleep affects our daily functioning and our physical and mental health in many ways that we are just beginning to understand. ...
• This chemical gradually breaks down while we sleep. ...
• During sleep, we usually pass through five phases of sleep: stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. These stages progress in a cycle from stage 1 to REM sleep, then the cycle starts over again with stage 1. We spend almost 50 percent of our total sleep time in stage 2 sleep, about 20 percent in REM sleep, and the remaining 30 percent in the other stages. Infants, by contrast, spend about half of their sleep time in REM sleep. ...
• During stage 1, which is light sleep, we drift in and out of sleep and can be awakened easily. ... People awakened from stage 1 sleep often remember fragmented visual images. ...
• When we enter stage 2 sleep, our eye movements stop and our brain waves (fluctuations of electrical activity that can be measured by electrodes) become slower, with occasional bursts of rapid waves called sleep spindles. ...
• It is very difficult to wake someone during stages 3 and 4, which together are called deep sleep. ... People awakened during deep sleep do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes after they wake up. Some children experience bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking during deep sleep. ...
• When we switch into REM sleep, our breathing becomes more rapid, irregular, and shallow, our eyes jerk rapidly in various directions, and our limb muscles become temporarily paralyzed. ... When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales -- dreams. ...

• In this edition we discuss recent research on longevity and sleep habits, new growth hormone research, and respiratory health news. ...
• 1 New Longevity Sleep Study Yields Surprise.
• Elderly Sleep Patterns and Tissue Regeneration.
• Steps to Better Sleep Quality .
• Exercise and Sleep.
• Sleep Environment.
• Sleep Inhibitors.
• Sleep Enhancers.
• Sleep, Choline, and Growth Hormone.
• Melatonin Sleep Aid.
• New Longevity Sleep Study Yields Surprise .
• A large six year study on sleep patterns reveals that individuals getting an average from six to seven hours of sleep per night, have significantly increased longevity compared with people averaging eight hours or more. ... The initial study involved tracking the sleep behavior of 1. ...
• The study clearly showed the highest mortality rates occurred with longer average sleep duration, but the researchers had no immediate explanation for the results. Optimal survival rates were seen in people who averaged seven hours of sleep per night. ... The study confirmed the results of previous sleep studies that both very short and long duration sleep are associated with increased mortality. But this is the first study large enough in scope to discern significant difference between seven and eight hours of sleep. ...

• Even though it's free, fun and organic, sleep is way down on most people's list of priorities -- far below wage slavery and other forms of Productive Behavior. ...
• That's the word from a survey just released by the National Sleep Foundation. NSF is a non-profit organization funded by individuals and corporations, including drug companies and mattress makers, with an interest in sleep. They say most Americans are getting less sleep, less fun and less sex than they were five years ago. ...
• The survey found that 63 percent of Americans don't get the recommended eight hours of sleep. Nearly one-third get less than seven hours. ... Although more people need eight hours than other amounts, many need less -- or more. ...
• Sleep? I'll do it on the job. ...
• Slavin' trumped snoozin': The more people worked, the less sleep they got. "There is a direct relationship between hours worked and its negative impact on sleep," said NSF vice-president James Walsh in a press release. ...
• If the NSF figures can be believed, 40 percent of Americans are working more than 5 years ago, and 30 percent less. ...
• Sixty-nine percent of the respondents have at least one symptom of sleep disorder. Fifty-one percent experienced a symptom of insomnia, such as difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep, or waking without feeling refreshed, a few times a week over the past year. ...
• But the study has flaws, cautions Terry Young, a sleep researcher and professor of preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She says the results may overestimate the prevalence of sleep disorders because people with sleep problems were more likely to answer the survey. ...
• Nonetheless, she says "There is definitely a high prevalence of sleep disorders that are undiagnosed and untreated. " Sleep is a necessity, not a luxury, she says, and lack of sleep is linked to cardiovascular disease and problems with learning, memory, motivation. ...

• Sleep Disorders.
• Sleep Disorders .
• In fact, sleep is as essential for a healthy body and mind as anything else you do during the day. ...
• How much sleep do I need, and why? .
• So what is sleep? .
• Sleep disorders .
• How to get a good nightâ ™s sleep .
• How much sleep do I need, and why? .
• Most teenagers need between 9 and 9½ hours of sleep each night. ...
• If you don't get enough sleep, you may experience symptoms of sleep deprivation. ...
• Depression after prolonged sleep deprivation.
• One study looked at the relationship between sleep and grades. The study found that teenagers who got more sleep had more A's and B's, while teens who got less sleep got more C's and D's. ...
• There are many other ways in which the right amount of sleep can keep you healthy. During sleep the body:.
• Repairs cells: Sleep slows metabolism, heartbeat and breathing rate, which helps the body replenish after daily physical activity.

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