Topic: Sleep in the News

Are you not a morning person? Do you find yourself constantly hitting the snooze button? You may not be alone, but you may actually be hurting your sleep patterns. By hitting the snooze button and trying to fall back asleep, just to be awakened again in 10 or so minutes, you are actually disrupting your…
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We’ve written here at SleepBetter.org many times about how sleep greatly effects your weight and eating habits, each day more and more research is being done to understand this correlation further. The latest news on this subject from the Mayo Clinic, where research reveals that people who are lacking in sleep are doing some serious…
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We’ve written here at SleepBetter.org many times about how sleep greatly effects your weight and eating habits, each day more and more research is being done to understand this correlation further. The latest news on this subject from the Mayo Clinic, where research reveals that people who are lacking in sleep are doing some serious…
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Recent findings from the National Health Interview Survey show which professions may leave you the most exhausted. The top five include: 1) Home Health Aids: bringing in an average of six hours and 57 minutes of sleep 2) Lawyers: 7 hour average 3) Police Officers: 7 hours and 1 minute average 4) Physicians & Paramedics:…
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It is common knowledge that the switch to Daylight Saving Time disrupts people’s sleep patterns, but a new study shows how this change in time affects worker productivity.  In a study conducted at Penn State University, it was found that many people slack off at work as a result of the ‘spring forward.’ Researchers found…
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For many, spring break is either more than half over or about to begin, and for a number of us spring break means travel.  One thing that is almost unavoidable when flying on long trips is jet lag. Jet lag is essentially your body’s response to a disruption of its circadian rhythm, or sleep cycle….
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Did you know this week is Brain Awareness Week? Now you do! In honor of this week, an online brain traning company called ‘Luminosity’ has conducted research on some of the best and worst things for brain health. Sleep, of course, took the top spot. Researchers tested subjects using math problems, online tests of memory,…
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Did you know this week is Brain Awareness Week? Now you do! In honor of this week, an online brain traning company called ‘Luminosity’ has conducted research on some of the best and worst things for brain health. Sleep, of course, took the top spot. Researchers tested subjects using math problems, online tests of memory,…
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Most people assume that as you get older, your sleep quality goes down.  A new study, however, is disputing that thought.  Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania originally began their work trying to prove that there was some connection between aging and reoccurring sleep problems, but in the end they…
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A new procedure takes new measures to put an end to the illusive problem of sleep apnea, especially for reoccurring and extreme cases.  The procedure involves a probe which is inserted into the tongue. Each time the probe sense that you are snoring it shocks you, to make you aware of the snoring so you can wake…
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