Sleep Info

It’s easy to make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow for using a word like “knackered”, as she did in a recent post on her newsletter, but it’s hard to argue with the quality of her advice.  To explain a bit — if you haven’t heard, Ms. Paltrow has discovered sleep.  She wrote in her newsletter that,…
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We say it over and over here at SleepBetter.org, and it’s not a new idea — most people don’t get enough sleep.  Another health issue in America and other countries is the rising percentage of people who are overweight.  Are those two facts linked?  A new study profiled by Reuters and other media sources is…
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There’s a great article on the Yahoo site, Shine, about how all of you night owls can become early birds.  In a perfect world, it wouldn’t be necessary for people who are naturally more alert at night to switch themselves onto an “early to bed early to rise” schedule, but we don’t live in that…
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Here at SleepBetter.org, we thought we’d heard it all.  That is, until we read about mathematician Mark Holmes and his graduate student Lisa Rogers at Troy, New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  They’re trying to use math to predict how different environmental, medical, or physical changes to a person’s body will affect their sleep.  Their story…
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The long held belief is that as you get older, you need less sleep.  A new study is disputing that claim.  According to a story this week in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, researchers at the University of California in San Diego reported at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference (the source of…
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This certainly isn’t the first time it’s been mentioned on SleepBetter.org, but it bears repeating — sleep deprivation leads to poor and potentially dangerous decisions. The sentiment is backed up by new research from Washington State University. The study was outlined in an article in yesterday’s Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington.   Researchers from WSU note…
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A new study outlined in a BBC story this week points to the productivity benefits of a siesta during the day.  Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley gave a group of 39 study participants a task in the morning that was hard to learn.  Results were relatively uniform among the members of the…
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Parents of young children know that naptime is a glorious time when you have, just for a little while, a moment to rest. Of course, we’ve always known that naps are not only good for the Mommy or Daddy. They’re obviously something the baby needs as well. A new study indicates just how important that…
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It’s okay to count these guys to the left right now, but don’t count any more tonight when you’re trying to get to sleep.  A recent article in the New York Times says scientists have actually debunked the myth that counting sheep will help you fall asleep.  Researchers at Oxford University gathered a bunch of…
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There have been words of caution about the affects of television on sleep pretty much since television watching became a popular pastime.  These concerns, however, have grown recently.  There is certainly more television programming available these days than there was even 10 years ago, and with the popularity of DVRs you can even watch recordings…
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