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• Email This Story   Print This Story As Teens Get Less Sleep, They Get More Depressed.
• Feelings of depression and low self-esteem plague children as they advance through middle school because they get increasingly less sleep, according to a new study. ...
• "Sleep clearly played a significant role in predicting depressive symptoms and self-esteem during adolescence," said psychologist Jean Rhodes of the University of Massachusetts. ...
• Attempts to improve the health, quality of life and academic careers of adolescents should consider the importance of a good night's sleep, she said. ...
• "Yet these results suggest that such changes are partially linked to a variable -- sleep -- that is largely under individual, parental and even school control. ...
• Rhodes and her colleagues found that students who slept fewer hours in the sixth grade had lower self-esteem, higher levels of depressive symptoms and worse grades than students who got more sleep. During the three years of middle school, they also found a steady decline in the average hours of sleep, which apparently led to declines in self-esteem and grades and a rise in depressive symptoms. ...
• Girls had a harder time than boys in getting enough sleep. They got more sleep than boys as they started middle school, possibly because girls enter puberty earlier, creating a greater need for sleep. Levels of sleep dropped for both boys and girls over time, but the decline was steeper for girls, she says. ...

• New American dream: A good night's sleep .
• Even as American productivity has risen by an average of nearly 3 percent a year over the past five years, a new poll shows a third of Americans also get less sleep than they did five years ago.
• Overall, the National Sleep Foundation reported Tuesday that 62 percent of adults get less than eight hours of sleep on a weekday night and a third say they're getting by on six hours or less.
• Forty percent of the 1,004 adults surveyed said they are working more than they were five years ago, while 30 percent said they're working less. At the same time, 38 percent said they're spending less time sleeping. ...
• ``There is a direct relationship between hours worked and its negative impact on sleep. This is particularly noticeable for people working more than 40 hours a week,'' said James Walsh, vice president of the nonprofit foundation, which promotes public education about sleep and sleep disorders.
• Across the board, the survey found American adults are not only spending less time sleeping, but also less time engaging in social and leisure activities and even having sex than they did five years ago.
• Sleeping less to try and do more is taking its toll. ...
• The survey did show that Americans are worried about being so tired and don't want to give up any more sleep, and more than 80 percent said they'd sleep more if they knew it would make them healthier, improve their memory or help them perform in a safer way and avoid injuries.
• ``That is, of course, exactly what will happen if you get adequate sleep,'' said Richard Gelula, executive director of the sleep foundation. ``Clearly, we have our work cut out for us to educate Americans that a good night's sleep is a necessity, not a luxury. ...

• 021502 usnews 2 Amarillo Globe-News CHICAGO (AP) - Don't fret if you don't get eight hours of sleep a night - new research suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven. ...
• Don't set the clock for less sleep yet .
• CHICAGO (AP) - Don't fret if you don't get eight hours of sleep a night - new research suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven.
• It found that those who slept eight hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die within six years than those who got 6 to 7 hours of sleep. Th ºe increased risk was more than 15 percent for those who reported getting more than 8 hours or less than about 4 hours nightly.
• Sleep experts said the research, though provocative, has several flaws. The study was not actually designed to look at sleep's effect on longevity. It relied on patients' recollections of their sleep habits and did not ask whether they took naps. It did not look at the quality of people's sleep or whether they felt drowsy all day.
• Phyllis Zee, director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's sleep disorders center, said the results probably do not reflect the general population because participants were not randomly selected but were mainly friends and relatives of volunteers for the American Cancer Society, which collected the data as part of a 1982 survey on cancer risks.
• Zee said it is possible that participants who got little sleep or slept eight hours or more had medical problems that would explain their increased death rate.
• The research neglects strong evidence that there are natural sleep variations, said psychologist Rosalind Cartwright of the sleep disorders center at Rush-Presbyterian-St. ...

• NEW SURVEY REPORTS MORE THAN 168 MILLION* AMERICAN ADULTS FAIL SLEEP IQ TEST, 132 MILLION** SUFFER SLEEP PROBLEMS.
• A new national survey released today finds that Americans' knowledge about sleep is strikingly lacking, with only 14 percent passing a Sleep IQ test. Many Americans hold on to dangerous myths, falsely believing that people need less sleep as they age, that raising the volume on the radio helps people stay awake while driving, and that the human body can adjust to night shift work. ...
• AMERICANS SLEEP POORLY .
• Furthermore, the consequences of Americans¹ poor sleep, documented extensively in the survey, are severe, with two-thirds of American adults reporting a sleep-related problem, and 23 percent acknowledging that they had actually fallen asleep while driving during the past year. ...
• The survey, sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation to launch National Sleep Awareness Week, March 30 - April 5, assessed Americans' knowledge and attitudes concerning sleep, their sleep habits, the consequences and correlates of those habits, and the prevalence of sleep symptoms and disorders. ...
• RESULTS CONCERN SLEEP DOCTORS .
• , Health and Scientific Advisor of the National Sleep Foundation and director of the Sleep Disorders Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. "People have no idea how important sleep is to their lives. Most of us need eight hours of sound sleep to function at our best, and good health demands good sleep. Conversely, lack of sleep and sleep problems have serious, often life-threatening consequences. ...
• AMERICANS IGNORANT ABOUT SLEEP .
• Based on a host of indicators, Americans are woefully ignorant about sleep. ...
• ** The older you get, the fewer hours of sleep you need. ... In fact, sleep need remains unchanged throughout adulthood. Older people may wake more frequently through the night, but their sleep need is no less than during young adulthood. Sleep difficulties are not a normal part of aging. ...

• Sleep deprivation leaves teens prone to depression, study says.
• Sleep deprivation can compromise learning, affect memory and cause irritability among schoolchildren. ...
• Middle-school students who get fewer hours of sleep because of homework or other distractions should be of concern to parents and teachers because of the "psychosocial" consequences, Jean Rhodes, a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, said yesterday.
• Everything looks a little bit less appealing," Dr. ... Adolescents should ideally get nine hours of sleep a night, some studies have shown.
• Rhodes found that those aged 11 to 14 were getting about seven hours or less, especially because they spent more time on the computer doing homework and e-mailing friends.
• "Yet these results suggest that such changes are partially linked to a variable -- sleep -- that is largely under individual, parental and even school control. ...
• Rhodes concluded that less sleep is a factor in low self-esteem and feelings of depression. Girls, she said, had a harder time than boys in getting enough sleep.
• Students who got less sleep in the sixth grade showed signs of low self-esteem and symptoms of depression. Similarly, students who received less sleep over the three-year period reported heightened levels of depressive symptoms and lower self-esteem, the study stated.
• Rhodes said adolescents need as much sleep as elementary schoolchildren because their bodies are going through a variety of changes and they're sleeping much lighter as they get older.
• "We need to think about sleep as a public-health issue the same way we think about drug and alcohol prevention, buckling up seat belts and all those other things. Sleep is something that affects mental health and we need to think about it that way," she said.
• Colin Shapiro, director of the Sleep and Alertness Clinic at Toronto Western Hospital, agrees that schools should start later in the morning, especially for teenagers. They need more sleep over time because their bodies are changing and many are balancing part-time jobs along with school.

• Categories : Books : The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night .
• The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night .
• Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child .
• The Happiest Baby on the Block : The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer .
• Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems .
• Rating: - Sleep Deprived No More!! 10 days ago, I was pulling my hair out trying to get my son to sleep. ... In 10 short days, I went from being sleep deprived to well rested by using several steps from her wonderful, practical book. ... I couldn't be happier and when mama's happy, everyone's happy! Rating: - I LOVE the no-crying approach! FINALLY, a book that makes sense to sleep-deprived people! I always thought there were only three options when it came to sleeping with a baby in the house: 1) You just get lucky and have a natural-born sleeper; 2) You can let them cry it out; or 3) You can just deal with the constant night waking. Thanks to Elizabeth Pantley, I realized there is a gentle, loving way to teach my daughter to sleep without a single tear! After a few nights of following our sleep plan, my daughter started sleeping through the night. ... No more guilt about not following the very rigid programs in some other "sleep books. "Thanks for all the sweet dreams, Elizabeth Pantley! Rating: - Yet another "expert" who's never met *my* kid! Pantley has a number of good ideas for parents to try to help their baby sleep. ... For example, my daughter had a very strong breastfeeding to sleep association. ... So, why use a sleep plan which involves giving in to the crying?! Retrospectively, I can see why this didn't work for us; in fact it may have been counter-productive. Here is the bottom line: If you are desperate for ideas to help your child sleep through the night, without letting him/her "cry it out," then you may find this book helpful. ... However, keep in mind that nothing, no parenting philosophy, no sleep plan, works for every child. ...

• Sleep and Dreams.
• A person will get progressively tired from this bodily breakdown, because sleep gives us a chance to build and replace the cells and resolve our end of day homeostatic imbalances.
• If you have not slept for a while, the decrease in the efficiency and effectiveness of the body begins to tell, and you will begin to feel sleepy as less energy is available to you. ...
• This is effectively the healing process of sleep that revitalises us.
• REM stands for rapid eye movement and is the points in time during sleep where dreams occur. They occur after periods of deep sleep.
• Our Environment Outside Sleep.
• However, sleep deprived people go into much deeper sleep, and may not detect such noises. The overriding point here is, that sleep is essential to the body, and that there are compensations made to our usual behaviour (like paralysis) that enables our body to do what is required for itself.
• Sleep Troubles.
• The older we get, the less sleep we require. Teenagers buck the trends in needing the most sleep of us all, due to the growth spurt occurring at puberty that involves a larger turnover of materials and energy. ...
• Newborn babies can sleep up to 60% of the day .
• With aging, the amount required is less due to the gradual degeneration of parts of the body that are not getting repaired. ...
• Next Tutorial PageSigmund Freud and Carl Gustav JungYou are hereHome & Tutorials & Neurology & Sleep and Dreams.
• Investigating sleep and dreams & the falling asleep process.

• According to a recent Harvard study a 90-minute nap can produce as much improvement in memory and learning as a full night's sleep. ... (Just don't wake up after 20 minutes and before 90, or you'll be interrupting deep sleep. ) To take a classic ten-minute power nap, Kirsty Kerin, another sleep researcher with Circadian Technologies, suggests:.
• How to Sleep Less and Function Better.
• It's a fact: Many of the world's most successful men don't need a lot of sleep. ...
• But what really struck me is that, back in 1999, he conducted the entire 78-day Balkan campaign on roughly two hours of sleep per night. Clark seems to be just another in a long line of history's success stories who required bizarrely small amounts of sleep. There was Alexander the Great, who famously slept hardly at all en route to conquering much of the known world by age 26; Napoleon, whose personal motto was "six hours of sleep for a man, seven hours for a woman, and eight for a fool"; Thomas Edison; Winston Churchill; former commander in chief Bill Clinton. ...
• Of course, the notion of sleeping less as a key to success flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which says Americans as a whole are grossly underslept -- snapping at our spouses, nodding off behind the wheel, getting fat and sick from the hormonal imbalances that can be caused by long-term sleep deprivation. According to the National Sleep Foundation, as many as 63 percent of the adults in this country fall under that description. Yet 45 percent of us say we're just sleeping less to accomplish more. As James Gleick, author of the best-selling Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, has noted, "Cheating sleep is the closest thing we have to cheating death. ...
• As understanding of the biology of sleep has improved, a handful of maverick researchers have begun to argue that a lot of us may be babying ourselves when it comes to sleep. ...
• I feel so calm and focused, in fact, I could go to sleep right now if I wanted to. ...
• I am a little concerned about keeping this up for too much longer (I'm on my third night of three hours of sleep, with none of my usual naps or lattes). ...
• If the new science of helping us to sleep less has some parallels to low-carb diets, then Dr. ... In 2002 the veteran University of California-San Diego sleep researcher announced the results of a six-year study analyzing the sleep patterns and mortality rates of 1. ... One might expect that sleeping six and a half to seven and a half hours (as opposed to the usually recommended eight or more) would have been associated with a higher mortality rate, but Kripke's data showed it was associated with a 15 percent lower rate, a finding that the National Sleep Foundation found unbelievable. ... "I've got a million subjects that prove people shouldn't be afraid of restricting their sleep and seeing how they feel. ...

• enerally speaking, age is probably the single most crucial factor (apart from the time since the last episode of sleep) that determines how humans characteristically sleep. More so than gender, psychiatric illness and even, to a large extent, most physical illnesses, age is a major determinant of human sleep. Across the human life span, sleep undergoes a wide variety of modifications which are broadly typical of the species, although for any particular aspect of sleep, at any given age, sleep measures have a relatively normal (bell-shaped) distribution. ...
• For example, the amount of nocturnal sleep (7-8 hours) obtained by the majority of adults occupies the mid-point of such a distribution with some individuals obtaining less sleep and some individuals obtaining more sleep. In the age-related patterns of sleep that are discussed below, the data are normative, i. ...
• Sleep from Infancy to Adulthood.
• The newborn infant sleeps about sixteen to eighteen hours per day, and its sleep is widely distributed around the twenty four hour day (Figure 1). This high sleep requirement is assumed to reflect a non-specific restitutional demand that occurs as a result of dramatic growth. By sixteen weeks of age, the total amount of sleep drops to about fourteen or fifteen hours per day and a clear diurnal pattern emerges (Figure 2). This daily sleep quota remains relatively constant for the first year of life. ... By age ten, sleep amounts of ten hours or less are reported; sleep then continues to decrease throughout adolescence until the adult pattern is approximated. Paralleling these decreased sleep amounts throughout adolescence are increases in the daytime tendency to fall asleep. Thus, the adolescent decrease in sleep duration may not represent a decrease in sleep need because the decreased sleep duration is accompanied by increased daytime sleepiness. ...
• AS A CHILD DEVELOPS, ITS SLEEP GRADUALLY BECOMES RESTRICTED TO THE NIGHT.
• Polyphasic (multiphase) sleep following birth changes first to biphasic (two-phase) sleep among preschool children and later to monophasic (single-phase) sleep. Among the elderly, periods of sleep during the day become more frequent again. ...

• Try turbo sleep .
• Get to sleep faster. ...
• Turbo tips for a quick trip to deep sleep.
• OST ADULTS, new studies suggest, are getting less shut-eye now than in previous decades. Do multi-taskers under endless artificial light need less sleep than their sunlight-bathed ancestors? .
• , director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic at Stanford University. And the need is vital: Sleep is the single most important factor in health, more influential than diet, exercise or heredity, Stanford's William Dement, M. ... , argues in his authoritative new book, The Promise of Sleep (Delacorte, $24. ...
• Research has established that adults over 25 need an average of eight hours' sleep a night to be at their mental and physical peak. "If someone is getting less than 712 hours, they're probably not getting enough," Black says. ...
• Ideally, says Black, half to a third of our sleep should be in the deepest, most restful stages. ...
• Unfortunately, it takes precious time to drop into deep sleep stages. These tips, he says, should help you sink into a sound, restful sleep with little delay. ...
• Turbo tips for a quick trip to deep sleep .
• Sleep in a quiet, temperate environment. Comfort levels vary with each person, but most bodies sleep deeper in cool environments (60-68 degrees) with warm blankets. ...

• how to sleep less.
•   how to sleep less, Guy, 2001-12-10 02:16:48 .
•    Re: how to sleep less, Guy, 2001-12-11 04:31:29 .
•    Re: how to sleep less, David Schnur, 2001-12-12 18:02:31 .
• how to sleep less posted by Guy 2001-12-10 02:16:48.
• Is there any way one can sleep less, e. ... 5 hours per night, instead of the recommended 8 hours, without suffering from the negative consequences usually associated with sleep deprivation, e. ...
• However, to my knowledge no one has yet come up with a replacement for normal sleep. ...
• Part of the problem is that sleep is highly under-researched. Neuorscientists still do not really know all the activities which take place during sleep. ...
• Re: how to sleep less posted by Guy 2001-12-11 04:31:29.
• Like you say, we still know little about sleep. However, I have speculated that one might reduce the duration of ones sleep with little side effects if we could extend the phases of deep sleep, i. ... I recall that such phases are the most vital during sleep. ...
• They are only vital for certain aspects of sleep (which appears to be quite multifunctional). Many years ago, I tried for over a year to sleep in two distributed 3 hour stretches. ... Especially problematic was the double time lost in going to sleep and getting up twice. ...

• Roleplayer #21, August 1990 Sleep .
• Because adventurers often find themselves unable to meet their sleep needs, the following guidelines are presented to help GMs deal with the effects of sleep in their GURPS game.
• An adventurer who fails to get enough sleep each day will first feel Fatigued. ... When sleep is finally possible, the tired individual will need a few extra hours of rest to recover fully. ...
• Each individual needs a certain amount of sleep per day -- typically 8 hours. Older people need less sleep; typically, someone from 35 to 50 will need 7 hours sleep, and someone over 50 will need 6 hours sleep.
• Young people, on the other hand, need more sleep. Children under 6 should sleep 10 hours per day; those from 6 to 14 typically need 9 hours each day.
• Subtracting the person's sleep requirement from 24 will give their normal day length (usually 16 hours). ... These losses can only be recovered with sleep.
• A person who has lost enough sleep can appear drunk, staggering and slurring his words. ...
• Factors that influence the quality of sleep will have the same effect as not getting enough hours of sleep. ... Hours of sleep missed. ...
• 1 or less. ...
• Any penalties to DX and IQ are temporarily removed for a character who makes a Will roll on the second turn of the threatening situation; the penalties may be ignored until the life-threatening situation ends, or for 15 minutes, whichever is less.
• The effects of lack of sleep can be put off for one hour by a successful meditation roll. ... A character can continue to put off sleep this way until a meditation roll is missed; then he will feel the full effect of his lack of sleep, and may not make further attempts to meditate until he is caught up on sleep. A critical failure on a meditation attempt will cause immediate sleep! Recovery.

• Enough/Too Much Sleep.
• Getting Enough or Too Much Sleep?.
• The secret to a good night's sleep is no secret at all: Listen to what your body is telling you.
• The bad news is that you're probably getting less sleep than your grandparents did. ...
• 22 hours of nightly sleep most of us average and the eight hours that experts recommend, new research shows eight may be more than enough.
• People who routinely sleep only six to seven hours on average have a longer life expectancy than those who get eight or more, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry (Feb 15, 2002).
• , and his colleagues found that subjects who slept seven hours a night lived the longest -- and that people who sleep eight hours or more are likely to die at a younger age than those who sleep less.
• Does that mean too much sleep shortens your life span? More research is needed to determine whether less sleep will lead to a longer life, Kripke told Well Journal. "But people who sleep five, six or seven hours a night without excessive sleepiness should be reassured that there is no safety risk in not sleeping eight hours," says the doctor.
• "Sleep less" is not the message that makers of sleeping pills and mattresses necessarily want you to hear. The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) issued a public critique of the Kripke article, citing flaws in sampling and conclusions. The foundation continues to recommend up to nine hours of sleep each night.
• Who, then, should you listen to? If your waking hours are marked by fatigue, difficulty concentrating and a generally irritable mood, your body is probably telling you it needs more -- or better quality -- sleep. ...
• Signs that lack of sleep is putting your health or safety at risk are:.
• By skipping sleep we're suffering more than an occasional memory lapse, attention deficit or bad mood. Sleep is needed for the healthy operation of the nervous, respiratory and immune systems.

• Paying the Price for Cheating on Sleep .
• There is probably no time of year when America's sleep debt is greater than it is right now. Starting with Thanksgiving week, holiday preparations and parties, gift shopping and packaging, family visits and extra hours of work to make up for days off prompt millions of Americans to cheat on their sleep even more than usual. Many are used to being tired and think, optimistically, that they'll catch up with lost sleep after the New Year. ...
• Losing Sleep.
• This is the first of two columns on sleep debt. ...
• And new research suggests that the consequences of chronic sleep deprivation may be far worse than simply diminished mental sharpness, shortened tempers and a tendency to doze off at every quiet moment. Rather, sleep scientists at the University of Chicago found that those who suffer from an accumulated sleep debt may develop serious health problems, including obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. ...
• Eve Van Cauter and Rachel Leproult found that even in young, healthy people, as little as a weeklong sleep debt of three or four hours a night has adverse effects on the body's ability to process carbohydrates, manage stress, maintain a proper balance of hormones and fight off infections. ...
• Sleep Lost, Never Regained .
• Most previous studies looked only at short-term sleep deprivation -- keeping people awake for 24 or 48 hours -- and explored only the effects on mental performance, alertness and mood, which do indeed suffer from a lack of sleep. ...
• "With prolonged sleep deprivation, we found effects much more relevant to health than result from the loss of one or two nights' sleep," Dr. ... "We found that an accumulated sleep debt is potentially as detrimental to health as poor nutrition or a sedentary lifestyle. ... People are sleeping less and less and becoming more and more tired. ...
• James Maas, author of "Power Sleep" (HarperCollins, 1999), says an answer of "true" to two or more of the following statements may be signs of a sleep problem. ...
• •Weekday mornings I hit the snooze button several times to get more sleep. ...

• What Do Children Mean For Your Good Night's Sleep?.
• One of the biggest adjustments and challenges for parents is getting a good night's sleep on a regular basis. Equally important is making sure children develop healthy sleep habits. Sleep problems in parents and children are often interrelated. ...
• According to the National Sleep Foundation's 2001 Sleep in America poll, adults with children get less sleep and report more sleep problems compared to adults without children. Adults who had children under the age of 18 reported sleeping less during the week than those without children (6. ... More than three-fourths of these respondents (76%) also said they frequently experienced a sleep problem. Among the five percent of adults who said they typically sleep with a child, eight out of ten (81%) said they frequently experienced a sleep problem compared to sixty-nine percent of adults who don't sleep with a child. ...
• Insomnia is the most wide spread sleep problem for adults with or without children. ... Symptoms of insomnia include difficulty falling asleep, waking a lot during the night, waking up too early and not being able to get back to sleep, and waking up feeling un-refreshed.
• Single parents face particular sleep challenges. ...
• More than one-third of all Americans (38%) said they get less sleep now than five years ago, however, this sleep loss was more prevalent in households with children, particularly among single parents. Nearly one-half (47%) of married adults with children and more than one-half (55%) of single parents reported sleeping less today than five years ago. Nearly half of adults who work full time and have children (45%) said they get less sleep now than they did five years ago.
• Sleep is a necessity, not a luxury, for people of all ages. Here are a few tips for parents to help ensure that all members of the family get a good night's sleep:.

• New research finds an association between the duration of sleep and the length of a person's life. ...
• Comes to Sleep, Less May Be More .
• 15 — So you stayed up past your bedtime watching late-night TV, and that means you only got six hours of sleep. ... But new research is challenging the notion that when it comes to sleep, more is always better. ...
• • Getting Your 40 Winks: Tips to Keep Your Sleep Peaceful.
• • Could Nightly Sleep Become Optional?.
• In fact, people who reported sleeping more than eight hours a night have a 15 percent greater chance of dying, for any reason, than people who sleep seven hours a night. The same holds true for those who slept less than four or five hours, found researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and the American Cancer Society.
• The study, which appears in the current issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, used data collected by the American Cancer Society in 1982 and 1988 that documents the sleep habits (including use of sleeping pills) of 1. ...
• "The average American sleeps six and a half hours a night and people who sleep five, six, or seven hours are perfectly safe and don't need to sleep any more. ...
• Sleep Less, Live Longer? .
• Experts caution that the results of this study demonstrate only that there is a relationship between sleep and mortality and do not explain the underlying causes. ...
• "Although sizable, the study population friends and relatives of American Cancer Society volunteers is not a random sample and does not represent the entire population," said a representative of the National Sleep Foundation. ...
• While the idea that sleeping less will lead to longer life cannot yet be proven, it has been examined in previous research. ...
• "Most of the studies seem to support the idea that people who are very long sleepers and short sleepers may live less," said Dr. Phyllis Zee, director of the sleep center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. "But why? Is it a sleep-related issue, or is there an underlying problem for which sleep is a symptom?" .

• « HOME | HealthEmail This Story    Print This Story Less Sleep Linked To Longer Life.
• Study: People Live Longest With Seven Hours Of Sleep .
• Getting eight hours of sleep might not be your best bet after all, according to a new study. ...
• Research published in Friday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven hours of sleep each night, not eight. ...
• 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 .
• 5 hours -- or less than about four hours -- nightly. ...
• Even those with as little as five hours sleep lived longer than participants with eight hours or more per night, according to the study, which was conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society. ...
• Although the study found the highest mortality rates with long-duration sleep, the study could not explain the causes or reasons for this association. ...
• "We don't know if long sleep periods lead to death," said Dr. Daniel Kripke, a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research. ...
• But people who sleep an average of 6. 5 hours a night can rest assured that it's a safe amount of sleep, Kripke said. "From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer. ...

• And Getting the Sleep You Need.
• Falling to sleep sounds easy enough, and yet each night seventy million Americans have trouble getting the sleep they need. These sleep deprived individuals struggle to get to sleep and the next day they fight to stay awake. They fall into a vicious no-sleep cycle; a cycle that reduces their productivity and creates emotional problems in the workplace and at home. Sleep deprived individuals get more and more tired and have more and more trouble falling asleep as they worry about getting enough sleep. ...
• According to a survey conducted by Consumer Reports and released in March of 1997, 50% of men and 66% of women "frequently had problems getting a good night's sleep. ...
• Everyone needs sleep. Sleep helps the body recharge its physical and mental batteries that are drained during the day. When our bodies get less sleep than needed, we become "dull, depressed and irritable. " Proper amounts of sleep help our memory and help us learn. ...
• Twelve per cent said that trouble sleeping was almost a daily occurence and half of the people admitted that they had suffered from sleep problems for two years or more. ...
• To accomplish more, some people cut their sleep time. ... As we get less sleep, we accomplish less. ... As people get less and less sleep they become more tense. ...
• There is also concern that sleep deprivation may speed up the aging process. ...
• -- Ronald Kotulak writing in the Chicago Tribune's article, Rsearchers: Lack of sleep may cause aging, stress, flab .

• Email This Story |  Print This Story As Teens Get Less Sleep, They Get More Depressed.
• Feelings of depression and low self-esteem plague children as they advance through middle school because they get increasingly less sleep, according to a new study. ...
• "Sleep clearly played a significant role in predicting depressive symptoms and self-esteem during adolescence," said psychologist Jean Rhodes of the University of Massachusetts. ...
• Attempts to improve the health, quality of life and academic careers of adolescents should consider the importance of a good night's sleep, she said. ...
• "Yet these results suggest that such changes are partially linked to a variable -- sleep -- that is largely under individual, parental and even school control. ...
• Rhodes and her colleagues found that students who slept fewer hours in the sixth grade had lower self-esteem, higher levels of depressive symptoms and worse grades than students who got more sleep. During the three years of middle school, they also found a steady decline in the average hours of sleep, which apparently led to declines in self-esteem and grades and a rise in depressive symptoms. ...
• Girls had a harder time than boys in getting enough sleep. They got more sleep than boys as they started middle school, possibly because girls enter puberty earlier, creating a greater need for sleep. Levels of sleep dropped for both boys and girls over time, but the decline was steeper for girls, she says. ...

• THE IMPACT OF SLEEP DISORDERS ON SOCIETY.
• "Forty million Americans are chronically ill with various sleep disorders; an additional 20-30 million experience intermittent sleep-related problems. Sleep apnea alone is the cause of excessive daytime sleepiness experienced by almost 20 millions Americans. Millions more are severely sleep-deprived as a result of demanding work schedules and various other life-style factors. One estimate of the cost of sleep related workplace productivity is $150 BILLION. " --Report of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research submitted to the U. ...
• -Sleep apnea has been found in up to 10% of men over age 40. ... a higher percentage of workers may suffer from a sleep disorder that causes dangerous workplace impairment very similar to that of substance abuse--but which is much more readily and rapidly treatable.
• 5-4 hours less sleep per 24-hour period than day shift workers, and their sleep is more fragmented and more physiologically abnormal: even if noise and other interruptions are eliminated.
• REGIONAL SLEEP DISORDERS CENTER.
• Accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

• 4402 Procrastination results in poor test scores, lower grades, less sleep.
• Studies by Case Western Reserve University found that all students who procrastinated reported less stress and illness at the start of semesters. ...
• “I’ve discovered this has two negative effects: lost sleep and being only half-awake come class and testing time. ...
• From both personal experience and from stories of others, it is clear that controlling procrastination requires much effort and determination to limit procrastination, but the rewards from doing so are often worthwhile: better grades, less stress, and (as most Loyola students would desire most) a good night’s sleep.

• Less Sleep Linked To Longer Life.
• Study: People Live Longest With Seven Hours Of Sleep .
• Getting eight hours of sleep might not be your best bet after all, according to a new study. ...
• Research published in Friday's issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests adults live longer if they get six or seven hours of sleep each night, not eight. ...
• 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 .
• 5 hours -- or less than about four hours -- nightly. ...
• Even those with as little as five hours sleep lived longer than participants with eight hours or more per night, according to the study, which was conducted by researchers from the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society. ...
• Although the study found the highest mortality rates with long-duration sleep, the study could not explain the causes or reasons for this association. ...
• "We don't know if long sleep periods lead to death," said Dr. Daniel Kripke, a UCSD professor of psychiatry who specializes in sleep research. ...
• But people who sleep an average of 6. 5 hours a night can rest assured that it's a safe amount of sleep, Kripke said. "From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer. ...

• Controlling your sleep.
• And it was so horrible that I, before going to sleep on the first night, thought to myself that I had to wake up before the alarm would go off.
• I remember, even longer ago, a friend who experimented with aligning his sleep to his sleep cycles.
• He said that you could check what your sleep cycle is by staying awake, and measuring the time between the first and second yawn periods. First you get tired, and yawn a lot, then comes a period where you get less tired and don’t yawn, and then you get tired again. This is your sleep cycle, he said.
• So what you should do, he explained, is make sure you sleep in multiples of your sleep cycle, and you’ll wake up feeling fresh. ...
• At first, I believed that you had to know what time it was when you set your inner alarm clock, so that your unconscious, or whatever, would be able to calculate the sleep cycle, or something, when you told it you want to wake up at six thirty. ...
• I can set myself to awake awfully early in the morning, and it very often makes me awake very shortly before the time I had decided, usually a minute or less—and if it has ever failed, it can only be once or twice.
• Also, it seems I can get by with less sleep than when using an alarm clock. I don’t know if this really is because your sleep cycle adjusts itself, but I’m less tired sleeping, on average, six hours per night, than when I sleep eight hours but abort my sleep by external means.

• There are times when we can all get worried about the way we sleep or even don't sleep. ... Facts About Sleep .
• Too much sleep can be bad for you and make you feel groggy. Over sleeping can make you less efficient when you need to use your mind and skills to solve problems. ...
• Experiments have shown that people who routinely sleep less than six hours per night are only 1. 3% times as likely to die as those who sleep for seven or more hours a night. On the other hand, those that sleep less gain several more hours of living every week .
• In a sleep clinic it has been shown that people who say they don't sleep usually take approximately seven minutes more to fall asleep and then more often that not they sleep for several hours .
• Some people, especially as they get older, need a lot less sleep than others .
• You can make sure you have a peaceful night though by thinking of nice things before you go to sleep .
• Taking sleeping tablets over a long period of time, can in turn mean you can't get to sleep without them. The effect they have can also start to reduce and cause even more sleep problems. ...
• How To Get To Sleep Remember there is not reason to worry about not going to sleep straight away, or about tossing and turning, or about waking up during the night or even about how much you sleep. ...
• You will sleep better if you are physically tired rather than mentally exhausted .
• If you wake up and can't get back to sleep, don't just lie there upsetting yourself over it. ...
• Take a hot water bottle to bed, you will sleep better if you are warm .

• Shakespeare's Less Than "gentle Sleep" .
• NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The restlessness of some of his most troubled characters reveals William Shakespeare's deep understanding of sleep disorders, experts say. ...
• The Bard of Avon "vividly described many clinical disorders, including those of sleep," conclude a group of neurologists led by Dr. Yury Furman of the Sleep Disorders Center at Los Angeles' Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. ...
• The great Elizabethan dramatist well understood the lure and comfort of sleep. In his despair and confusion Prince Hamlet longs for death's ultimate repose: "To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. ...
• The Los Angeles researchers say four distinct sleep disorders crop up throughout the Bard's oeuvre: .
• In "Macbeth," the Gentlewoman remarks that she has seen Lady Macbeth rise, dress, write letters, and return to bed -- "yet all this while in a most fast sleep. ...
• In his guilt Macbeth, like his troubled wife, cannot find the "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care. ...
• " The study authors may well sympathize: they say frightening dreams have the ability to "awaken the sleeper from REM sleep. ...
• -- Sleep apnea. Drunkenness and obesity may be behind Falstaff's obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). ... " The Los Angeles experts say reduction in alcohol consumption, proper sleep position, and surgery can each help alleviate OSA. ...

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