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Jet Lag is a Drag: Travelling Without Exhaustion

  • Posted: June 21, 2011 
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By Dr. Lisa Shives The summer is nearly upon us, and even with the economy still on shaky ground, millions will take to the sky in June, July and August to fly to destinations  far away.  Unfortunately one of the side-effects of flying across the country or across the world is dealing with time zones…
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Ask Dr. Lisa: How Many Pillows Should I Use?

You have questions … and Dr. Lisa, The Sleep M.D., is answering them!  This is the first installment of a new feature on SleepBetter.org that we call Ask Dr. Lisa.  Each week we ask you to submit questions on our Facebook page, and we pick several of them to submit to our medical sleep expert,…
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Survey Confirms Some Choose Connectivity Over Sleep

We’ve talked about it before here on SleepBetter.org, but a new survey has some eye-opening stats related to smartphone usage and sleep.  Smartphones are devices that not only allow you to make phone calls, but also send and receive email and texts, log in to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and even play…
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SleepBetter Article Collections: Sleep and Your Relationship

SleepBetter Article Collections put a series of related articles in one easy-to-find place.  We’ve selected the collection topics because we think you, our visitors, will find them particularly useful.  If you’d like to suggest an article collection, please contact us! This collection lists a series of articles that cover how sleep (or lack thereof) can…
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SleepBetter Article Collections: Sleep and Your Child

SleepBetter Article Collections put a series of related articles in one easy-to-find place.  We’ve selected the collection topics because we think you, our visitors, will find them particularly useful.  If you’d like to suggest an article collection, please contact us! This collection lists a series of articles that cover how important sleep is for your…
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Celebrate Better Sleep Month 2011

Here at SleepBetter.org, we celebrate healthy and restful sleep 365 days every year, and 366 during Leap Years.  However, the month of May is set aside for the rest of the world as Better Sleep Month.  So, how can you celebrate this year?  Here are some suggestions and links to help: • Take stock of…
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What's More Important – Your Phone or Your Sleep?

At first glance, the headline above seems silly.  Of course sleep is more important.  Sleep deprivation can bring on a host of physical and emotional problems.  However, if it’s truly that obvious, why are many of us letting our phone get in the way of sleeping properly? With an increase in the use of phones…
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What’s More Important – Your Phone or Your Sleep?

At first glance, the headline above seems silly.  Of course sleep is more important.  Sleep deprivation can bring on a host of physical and emotional problems.  However, if it’s truly that obvious, why are many of us letting our phone get in the way of sleeping properly? With an increase in the use of phones…
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Two Webby Awards for SleepBetter.org Video "2 Guys 600 Pillows"

The Webby Awards, the Internet’s most respected symbol of success, awarded both a Webby AND a People’s Voice award to Carpenter Co. and sleep tips website SleepBetter.org for the video 2 Guys, 600 Pillows.  The effort was a commissioned work by “Internetainers” Rhett & Link, who put 600 pillows to work in a music video…
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Sleepy Air Traffic Controllers: Worrisome But Not Surprising

Recently we’ve been hit by a barrage of news stories about American air traffic controllers falling asleep.  As these are the people who ensure that planes carrying hundreds of other people land safely, this is truly worrisome.  Unfortunately, however, it’s not surprising. The sole reason for SleepBetter’s existence is that individuals in the U.S. and…
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