SleepBetter “elves” have been quite busy lately, and now they’re ready to unveil part of what they’ve been up to! This week, we’re launching an all new Zzzz Score™ quiz! The quiz is a new way to get advice from SleepBetter and learn just how good you are at sleeping. The new Zzzz Score provides…
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People sometimes joke around about old TV shows like I Love Lucy, where the main characters sleep in separate twin beds despite being married and eventually having a child. But, new research is echoing advice given by our own Dr. Lisa Shives in a recent Ask Dr. Lisa, that the best way to get a good…
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An organization with a fantastic idea for your child’s bedtime routine was profiled recently in the newspaper USA Today. Longtime SleepBetter visitors will recall that in 2010, we launched an effort to revive the bedtime story as a way to help children settle in for a good night’s sleep. The group Bedtime Math wants to…
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The arrival of spring is good news for people who have struggled with sleep disruptions over the winter months, despite the short term disruption to sleep patterns immediately after the change to Daylight Savings Time. “It may sound a bit counter intuitive, but a good dose of sunlight can help you sleep at night,” says…
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As we go through modern life, we trust a lot of people to transport us and our belongings safely. Cab drivers, airline pilots and bus drivers need to be awake and alert or disasters both small and large can happen. The National Sleep Foundation recently looked into how tired these transportation professionals are on a…
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Apparently where you live has at least some bearing on how well you sleep. A research team analyzed nationwide data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), producing the first state-by-state sleep maps for the United States. The map, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that residents of…
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Apparently where you live has at least some bearing on how well you sleep. A research team analyzed nationwide data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), producing the first state-by-state sleep maps for the United States. The map, from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that residents of…
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Oversleeping is inevitable. It happens to everyone. Sometimes it leads to a boss being upset, and sometimes you get away with it. It’s so common, in fact, that it was recently named as one of the top reasons for work tardiness. According to a new CareerBuilder study. Sixteen percent of workers reported they arrive late…
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Have you visited the SleepBetter Facebook Page recently? If you haven’t, you’ll find that there are a lot more people there than just a few short weeks ago. This past weekend we crossed a social media tipping point by eclipsing 100,000 fans. More than 35,000 people have “liked” the page since our largest Facebook contest…
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Time for another edition of Ask Dr. Lisa, where our sleep expert answers your questions without an appointment! We pick out sleep-related questions submitted on our Facebook Page, and send them to our medical sleep expert, Dr. Lisa Shives, for an answer. In this installment, Dr. Lisa talks about sleep and food. Lisa Zimmerman asks:…
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