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• 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. ...

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• 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. ...

• - Have you had less than 7 to 8 hours of sleep?.
• Sleep-related crashes are most common in young people, who tend to stay up late, sleep too little, and drive at night. ...
• Source: National Sleep Foundation .
• Do young people need less sleep?.

• Editorial Cites Evidence of Longer Life with 6 to 7 Hours Sleep.
• KeywordsSURVIVAL SLEEP PSYCHIATRY .
• The best survival rate is experienced by people who sleep 7 hours, rather than 8 or more, or less than 4. ...
• Newswise — The best survival rate is experienced by people who sleep 7 hours, rather than 8 or more, or less than 4. 5 hours, according to an editorial in the February 2004 issue of the journal SLEEP by Daniel F. ...
• The editorial, titled â œDo We Sleep Too Much?â � comments on a study by A. ...
• See the web sites below for a synopsis of current articles in SLEEP and a news release about the 2002 Kripke study that surveyed more than one million adults. ...

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• 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. ...

• What Happens When We Sleep? .
• While many of us think of sleep as a largely forgotten stretch of time when nothing happens, sleep is, neurologically speaking at least, a busy time indeed. Although sleep's importance is inarguable, scientists do not know exactly why it is so important to our survival. What happens when we sleep? .
• Sleep Stages.
• Scientists recognize sleep stages by tracking the changes in brain waves. The five sleep stages are repeated as many as five times during the night. As the night progresses, each cycle lengthens, and REM sleep, during which most dreaming takes place, extends. ...
• In this brief stage, which may last only a few minutes, the body drifts to sleep. ...
• Percent of total sleep time for young adults: 5 percent. ...
• Heartbeat and breathing slow and the sleep is deeper than in Stage 1. Slow-wave sleep continues with peaks of brain waves (known as sleep spindles) occurring. ...
• Percent of total sleep time for young adults: 44 to 55 percent. ...
• These are the stages of deepest sleep, when brain waves are slowest. ...
• Percent of total sleep time for young adults: 15 to 23 percent. ...
• Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages lengthen through the night. ...

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• 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. ...

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• 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. ...

• --> Settling for a low quality of sleep? Then you settle for a low quality of life! I have been reading a lot about sleep technology and the importance of sleep on the website for kingsdown matresses. It is said that without sleep you are less efficient and more irratable throughout the day. In fact, in many sleep deprived individuals it has been found that they lose some of their short term memory and bodily functions. Walk around sleep deprived and you will be living a much lower quality life than those. ...
• Settling for a low quality of sleep? Then you settle for a low quality of life!.
• I have been reading a lot about sleep technology and the importance of sleep on the website for kingsdown matresses. It is said that without sleep you are less efficient and more irratable throughout the day. In fact, in many sleep deprived individuals it has been found that they lose some of their short term memory and bodily functions. Walk around sleep deprived and you will be living a much lower quality life than those who get enough sleep. I find myself getting less and less sleep which has actually changed the way I feel when I wake up in the morning. ...
• "Sleep deprivation is estimated to cost $150 billion a year in higher stress and reduced workplace productivity. " --The National Commission on Sleep Disorders .
• Another thing that I often do is fragment my sleep. I never go to sleep or get up at the same time daily. ... The problem with that is, " Normal, healthy sleep follows a particular cycle of stages. If you break that cycle, sleep is disturbed, which means you will spend less time in the stages of sleep most responsible for the important repair work your body requires. ... This means that days I do not have to get up early I sleep late, but then days that I have to get up early I only get 3 to 5 hours of sleep those days which means I do not have a normal sleeping pattern. This has caused me to be less efficient in what I do, it has caused me to be drowsy and sometimes even drift off at work, it causes me to be grumpy and even angry in the mornings, and it has certainly caused me to be late for work and actually makes me accomplish less than if I would have went to bed earlier. ...

• Sleep's healing properties.
• Five keys to optimal sleep.
• But good-quality sleep goes far and beyond those products when it comes to restoring your health. And best of all, sleep is free. ...
• Organizing your life so you get the highest quality sleep possible is well worth the effort. And quantity doesn't necessarily equal quality: You may sleep for many hours, but if your sleep isn't deep enough, or if your sleep cycle is disturbed, you may still be at greater risk for illness. A simple way to gauge the quality of your sleep is to see how refreshed you feel when you wake up. ...
• Part of sleep's effect lies in hormones. During deep sleep, the production of growth hormone is at its peak. ...
• Melatonin, often called the sleep hormone, is also produced during sleep. This hormone inhibits tumors from growing, prevents viral infections, stimulates your immune system, increases antibodies in your saliva, has antioxidant properties and enhances the quality of sleep. ...
• Some studies show the value of maintaining a steady and natural rhythm in sleep patterns. ...
• Researchers at the University of Toronto Center for Sleep and Chronobiology are uncovering important insights into how sleep heals. ... Harvey Moldofsky and his colleagues studied the natural rhythm of sleep by interrupting the sleep of a group of medical students. Over several nights, each time the students entered a deep-sleep phase, called the "non-REM" or "delta" phase, the researchers would interfere. ...
• Moldofsky conducted another study examining how the immune system reacts to sleep deprivation. ... , giving them four hours less sleep than usual. This one insult to their sleep pattern caused the activity of the natural killer cells to decrease by more than one-fourth the next day. ...

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• 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. ...

• Stanford University Center of Excellence for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disorders .
• | How much sleep do we need? What is sleep debt? | What causes us to feel sleepy? | America is a sleepy society | What is the biological clock? What does it do for us? | Drowsiness is red alert! | What is sleep? | What are sleep disorders? | Should Stanford undergraduates (and others) know about sleep disorders? | How common are sleep disorders? | Are student health physicians familiar with sleep disorders? | One more time! Drowsiness is red alert! | .
• This document describes some of the key facts about sleep, biological rhythms, and sleep deprivation that should be well known to every Stanford student as well as everyone everywhere. ...
• A recent survey of Stanford undergraduates revealed that their number one complaint was not getting enough sleep! heard a validation of this complaint from the lips of a well known alumnus, Tiger Woods, who said that one of the best things about his choice to leave Stanford for the professional golf circuit was that he could now get enough sleep. Although I offer an undergraduate course on sleep and dreams once each year, it is clear that it does not meet the need for all students to have some information about this topic. Most entering students have previously received no teaching whatsoever about sleep. ...
• We have learned that the consequences of pervasive sleep deprivation and undiagnosed sleep disorders are collectively one of our nation's biggest and most serious problems. ... A single sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, is now known to afflict 30 million Americans. ...
• The paradox is that our society remains a vast reservoir of ignorance about sleep deprivation and sleep disorders. The benefits of the hard earned knowledge about normal and pathological sleep have not been passed on to the general public and practicing physicians. ...
• Why is this? Teaching about sleep and dreams, the nature and consequences of sleep deprivation, and common sleep disorder symptoms is essentially absent from the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in our colleges and universities. ...
• In every classroom in America, students must learn that healthy sleep, along with physical fitness and good nutrition, form the fundamental triumvirate of health. However healthy we think we are, students and non-students alike, we must realize that we cannot be healthy unless our sleep is healthy! .
• How much sleep do we need? What is sleep debt? .
• Each of us has a specific daily sleep requirement. The average sleep requirement for college students is well over eight hours, and the majority of students would fall within the range of this value plus or minus one hour. If this amount is not obtained, a sleep debt is created. All lost sleep accumulates progressively as a larger and larger sleep indebtedness. Furthermore, your sleep debt does not go away or spontaneously decrease. The only way to reduce your individual sleep debt is by obtaining extra sleep over and above your daily requirement. ...

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• 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. ...

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• 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. ...

• Many High School Students Do Not Get Enough Sleep – And Their Performance Suffers.
• "Sleep, I need sleep. ... In the busy daily lives of high school students, getting a good night’s sleep often falls to the bottom of the "To Do" list. ... This Harris Poll provides powerful evidence that sleep deprivation is widespread among high school students and appears to be a major cause of poor academic performance.
• Most high school students get less than eight hours of sleep on school nights and one-third get less than seven. Those who get enough sleep do better in school, and vice-versa. Students who get less sleep are not only much more likely to fall asleep or daydream in class and to have difficulty paying attention, they are also much more likely to get poor grades and more likely to consider dropping out of school.
• While it is important to remember that a statistical correlation does not establish cause and effect, the evidence that sleep deprivation adversely affects the performance of millions of high school students is very strong. ... The generally accepted view is that they should get at least eight hours sleep each night. Only 40% of high school students say they get this much sleep the night before going to school, while 33% say they get less than seven hours, including 12% who get less than six hours of sleep. Furthermore most high school students (64%) believe that, in general, they do not get enough sleep.
• Those who feel they don’t get enough sleep are far more likely than those who feel they do get enough sleep to say that they often have difficulty waking up in the morning (70% vs. ...
• Furthermore, all of these characteristics – feeling tired, daydreaming, falling asleep and sleeping less than seven hours on school nights - are much more common among students who get poor grades than they are with students who get better grades. ...
• Students who get enough sleep are more likely than sleep-deprived students to believe that their extracurricular activities help them do well in school. In contrast, sleep-deprived students are more likely to view participation in activities as a hindrance to academic achievement. ... For example, students who get mostly "D’s" and "F’s" participate much less than "A " students in sports (26% vs. ... Sleep deprived children not only do less well in school, they also are less likely to participate in group activities.

• Sleep .
• Sleep.
• Anti-Aging » Anti-Aging and Lifestyle » Sleep » Sleep: The Revitalizer Sleep: The Revitalizer.
• Sleep is a necessary and integral state that permits mental and physical restoration. Adequate restful sleep, like diet, exercise, and supplement habits, is critical to good health. Insufficient restful sleep can result in mental and physical health problems.
• Sleep is one of the most basic and universal activities in which we all engage. Sleep is a necessary and integral state that permits mental and physical restoration. Adequate restful sleep, like diet and exercise, is critical to good health. Insufficient restful sleep can result in mental and physical health problems. Yet, getting to sleep, staying asleep, and waking refreshed can be highly elusive to most of us some of the time, and to many of us all of the time. The National Sleep Foundation reports (2002) that America is on the verge of a poor sleep epidemic. Results of their latest national poll revealed: 63 percent of American adults get less than the eight hours of sleep that experts recommend to maintain optimal physical, mental, and emotional health; one-third of the U. ... population says they get less sleep now than they did five years ago; one-half of all Americans have experienced insomnia; and drowsiness due to a lack of a proper night of sleep interferes with the daily activities of 37 percent of all adults. More than 70 million people suffer from sleep deprivation caused by poor or interrupted sleep and about 50 million suffer negative health effects as a result. The nationwide sleep debt, resulting in fatigue, has been reported to cost the American economy about $120 million annually in both health expenditures, lost worker productivity, and property destruction.

• Less sleep as we age.
• Turns out he was right, because one of the prices we pay for aging is difficulty getting a good night's sleep. ... The older brain also has more difficulty getting into a deep sleep. ...
• Sleep is divided into two basic categories based upon the electrical activity (brain waves) taking place. During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the electrical pulses are short and fast. It is sometimes called paradoxical sleep because the brain seems to be as busy as when it's awake. Our most vivid dreams occur during REM sleep, but dreams do occur during other stages of sleep. ... This sleep stage may be one way the brain processes the emotional content of our lives. ...
• Slow wave sleep (SWS) is divided into four stages based upon brain wave activity and ease of awakening, with stage 1 being the lightest and stage 4 being the deepest sleep. ...
• As we age, however, the quality of sleep changes. ... This helps explain why older folks are easily awakened by noise and may not feel well rested even after an apparently full night's sleep. The amount of time we spend in REM sleep also changes. Infants and children spend half their sleep time in the REM stage, but by adulthood, REM plateaus at 20 to 25 percent. It takes about two hours to go through all five stages of sleep, and then they repeat. REM sleep occurs about 90 minutes after we fall asleep. Adults spend half their sleep time in stage 2, 20 percent in REM, and the other 30 percent in the other stages. ...

• Dreaming Of A Good Night's Sleep? .
• Sleep Deprived.
• (CBS) Many Americans suffer from a serious lack of sleep, with more than two out of three getting less sleep than their bodies need. ...
• Neil Kavey, the director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, outlines the risks of sleep deprivation. ...
• Lack of sleep can cause psychological difficulties with emotions and cognitive abilities, he says. More research is showing sleep deprivation can cause physical setbacks by interfering with thyroid function, insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism and causing secretion of the stress hormone, cortisol. ...
• When we don't get enough sleep, we're less alert and attentive, more inclined to be irritable and experience other mood problems. ... Chronic sleep deprivation can easily lead to reduced quality of life and ill health. ...
• According to a Gallup Poll conducted for the National Sleep Foundation, Kavey says, one f every two people suffers from sleeplessness at some point in their lives, many of them chronically. ...
• We need different amounts of sleep throughout our lifespan. ... Adolescents need as much sleep as younger children. This is an especially important area of concern because for many teens, social and school demands don't allow enough time for sleep. ...
• The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is trying to make sure that doctors, parents and teens understand that teens should get at least 7. 5 hours of sleep per night. ...
• Kavey says it's a myth that our need for sleep declines in later years. Aging itself takes a toll on the ability to get sleep. It's not that we need less sleep, we just tend to get less sleep because sleep problems are more common among the elderly. ...

• Study blames rat race for nation's lack of sleep and sex .
• This is National Sleep Week, and if you're like the majority of Americans, .
• At least that's the conclusion of a survey by the National Sleep Foundation released today that said Americans are getting both less sleep and less sex in the bedroom. ...
• All in all, the foundation's annual sleep survey was almost disturbing enough to lose sleep over. ...
• And while Americans don't want to give up the sleep they are getting, and would sleep more if they thought it would better their lives, "The bad news is far too many adults still sacrifice sleeping, which is unhealthy and counterproductive," said foundation executive director Richard L. ... "A good night's sleep is a necessity, not a luxury. ...
• The 2001 Sleep in America poll of 1,004 adults found that 63 percent get less than eight hours a night and about 31 percent get less than seven hours. Many try to make up sleep on weekends, but even then, the average sack time is only 7. 8 hours, still, the foundation says, less than ideal. ...
• The poll also showed that 52 percent of the respondents were spending less time having sex than they did five years ago, and 38 percent said they have sex less than once a week. ...
• Daytime sleepiness was linked to marital problems, and 77 percent of those having sleep problems said they also have less marital satisfaction. ...
• Christian Guilleminaulte, an internationally known sleep researcher at Stanford's renowned Sleep Disorders Center. ...
• "It is a serious social problem," he said, noting that increased irritability, inattention and other symptoms of sleep deprivation can have serious effects on relations with children, spouses and co-workers. ...
• Beyond that, he said, constantly living under the stress of not getting enough sleep can exacerbate medical problems such as high blood pressure, digestive disorders and others. He also said sleep has a relationship to the body's immune function, and not getting enough could weaken the ability to fight off disease. ...
• Although the function of sleep is still not completely understood, Guilleminaulte said sufficient sleep is obviously important to memory, comprehension and other necessities in waking life. ...

• Sleep Health NEW!.
• Survey: Children getting less sleep than recommended.
• WASHINGTON (AP) - Children are sleeping less than experts recommend and many parents are not happy about it, according to a survey of American households by the National Sleep Foundation. ...
• The foundation, an independent organization that supports sleep education, announced Tuesday that its annual survey found children, from newborns to fifth-graders, are getting one to two hours less sleep every 24 hours than is recommended. ...
• 7 hours of sleep daily, while experts suggest 14 to 15 hours. ...
• 7 hours, while 12 to 14 hours is the recommended amount of daily sleep. ...
• Daily sleep averaged about 10. ... Experts recommend 11 to 13 hours of sleep for this age group. ...
• 5 hours of sleep daily, the survey found. Experts say the appropriate amount of sleep for this group is 10 to 11 hours. ...
• "Our new poll finds that many children are not sleeping enough and many experience sleep problems," Richard L. ...
• Almost 70 per cent of the children in the households surveyed were said to experience sleep problems a few nights a week, including difficulty falling asleep, sleepwalking, snoring and breathing difficulties. ...
• The poll found that about 75 per cent of those polled would change something about their children's sleep habits if they could. ...
• The poll also found that the parents or caregivers of children are also getting less than the ideal amount of sleep. ... 8 hours per night, slightly less than the seven hours that the foundation found in a 2002 poll of adults. Most parents said they need eight to nine hours of sleep a night. ...

• Sleep Deprivation: A Growing Health Problem.
• 18, 2003 --- Mom was right all along: If you don’t get enough sleep, bad things could happen to you.
• While it seems like reasonable enough advice, millions of adult Americans still aren’t heeding it, even though studies continue to show that sleep is as vital to good health as eating wisely and exercising regularly. ...
• Adults, experts say, need between six and 10 hours of sleep each night, though most experts recommend around eight hours. Children require even more – as much as nine and even 10 hours of sleep in some cases.
• “You may say you feel okay getting by with less sleep, but experts are finding over time that among sleep-deprived adults, changes are taking place in the body that cause you to be less healthy,” says Dr. ...
• “Sleep deprivation, after all, is a form of stress, and when you’re stressed, your body reacts in ways that aren’t beneficial in the long run. ...
•   One of the most recent sleep-related studies, for example, tracked adults over a 19-year period.   It revealed that those who did not sleep as well or encountered problems going to sleep had higher incidences of cancer, heart disease and pneumonia.    One’s inability to sleep soundly or to fall to sleep within a reasonable time are typical byproducts of sleep deprivation.
• For children, the risks associated with sleep deprivation are more immediate, Keith says. ...
• Recent reports from the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research and the National Institutes of Health indicate that children are not so much at risk of chronic disease as they are prone to physical injuries, such as wrecks with their bicycles or falls from playground equipment, he says. ...
• And for teenagers old enough to drive, the consequences of sleep deprivation can be even worse.
• Studies also have shown sleep-deprived kids don’t perform as well in school.
• This, Keith says, is why it’s so important for parents to ensure a normal sleep schedule for children. ...
• “If kids require nine hours of sleep, and children have to get up at 6:00 a. ... – they’re sleep deprived and are not going to be doing so well. ...

• Effective Sleep.
• Inadequate Sleep Affects Hormone Levels.
• Optimal Wellness Sleep Guide.
• Lack of Sleep Affects Hormone Levels .
• The changes in sleep quality that often come with age seem to trigger shifts in the endocrine system, altering hormone levels and metabolism. Researchers say that this study shows that a good night's sleep may be a natural form of hormone therapy, particularly for older adults.
• Researchers studied 149 men, aged 16 to 83, and found that age-related changes in sleep quality were linked to specific changes in several hormones. ...
• As sleep quality and quantity declined levels of the adrenal hormone cortisol increased, while levels of Growth Hormone (GH) declined.
• After the age of 25, men experience a decline in deep sleep that accompanied by a drop in GH production. ...
• In later years, a new sleep pattern emerges, in which men get less sleep overall and levels of cortisol go up. ...
• The lower quality of sleep that the aging men experienced was evident though the measurement of several parameters.
• The average percentage of time spent in deep slow wave sleep decreased from 18. ...
• This lost deep sleep was replaced by lighter sleep (stages 1 and 2) without other significant changes.
• The transition from mid-life to late life (age 71-83 years) involved no further significant decrease in deep slow wave sleep but an increase in time awake of 28 minutes per decade at the expense of decreases in both light non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep and REM sleep. ...
• These sleep pattern changes accompanied some changes in hormonal activity. ...
• The decline in slow wave sleep from early adulthood to mid-life was paralleled by a major decline in GH secretion (-372 µg per decade).

• How much sleep does your child need? As a new parent, that's probably one of your biggest questions. Below are some general guidelines as to how many hours of sleep the average child requires at various ages. Of course, every child is different — some need up to two hours more or less sleep than others. ...
• Nighttime Sleep.
• Daytime Sleep *.
• Total Sleep.
• Keep in mind that most children need lots of sleep. Often, says BabyCenter sleep expert Jodi Mindell, author of Sleeping Through the Night, if a child has poor sleep habits or refuses to go to bed before 11 at night, his parents will think that he just doesn't need a lot of sleep. That's probably not true — in fact, it's likely that such a child is actually sleep-deprived. ...
• • On some nights, does your child seem to crash much earlier than his usual bedtime? If you answered "yes" to any of these, your child may be getting less sleep than he needs. To change this pattern, you'll need to help him develop good sleep habits and set an appropriate bedtime. "Then he'll get all the sleep he needs to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," Mindell says. ...
• Preschoolers and young elementary school students still need up to 10 or 11 hours of sleep a night, but that amount will gradually decrease. ... To find out more about children's sleep patterns, take our quiz. ...
• How do I get my toddler to sleep longer in the morning? Sleep concerns: Overstimulation Bulletin board: Bedtime routines Sleep concerns: Croup Normal sleep at wrong times: 1 to 2 years .
• My concern is when he stays with his father he will have less sleep time to be at school on time. ...

•  « back Sleep loss in middle-school kids tied to depression, poor grades .
• By Lee Bowman SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE   Feelings of depression, low self-esteem and poor academic performance plague more children in middle school when they get less and less sleep, a new study of Chicago-area teens shows.   "Kids start down this slope in the sixth grade, and the loss of sleep and the effects from it just continue to grow as they progress through school," said Jean Rhodes, a psychologist at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, who did the study with graduate student Katia Fredriksen and several colleagues. ... But earlier school start times, coupled with the demands of homework, extracurricular activities and teen grooming also conspire to rob adolescents of sleep.   Sleep deficit   The National Sleep Foundation says most people between 10 and 18 need 8 2/3 to 9 2/3 hours of sleep each night. But surveys suggest they're getting an hour or two less than this most school nights.   One 1998 survey of high school students by Rhode Island researchers found that 85 percent of the teens were chronically sleep-deprived and built up a sleep deficit of at least 10 hours during the week. More than a quarter of those teens said they got less than 6 2/3 hours of sleep a night.   The new study, published in the January-February issue of Child Development, focused on the influence of sleep patterns among 2,529 11- to 14-year-olds surveyed in homerooms. ...   The study found that on average, middle schoolers lose about 15 minutes of sleep a night each year from the sixth to the eighth grade. Rhodes found that girls were getting a bit more sleep than boys when they entered middle school, possibly because girls tend to reach puberty earlier and this creates an initial desire for sleep. But over time, the decline in sleep time was steeper for girls than boys.

• Sleep Less and Increase your Energy by 25%.
• What, when and how you eat makes a tremendous difference in how much energy you have and how much you need to sleep at night.
• Lately I've needed a lot of sleep, around 9 hours per night. ...
• The following day I was full of energy again and needed only 6 hours of sleep. ...
• She only needed a few hours of sleep every night. ...
• Learn how to mine your hidden talents for cash, lose weight, increase your energy, enjoy changing bad habits, sleep less, defeat depression, solve problems quickly and much, much more. ...

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