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  • Bed sharing 'drains men's brains'

    01/23/2010 6:03:48 PM PST · by driftdiver · 57 replies · 1,939+ views
    BBC ^ | Jan 20, 2010 | BBC
    Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest. When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day. The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels. According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.
  • Watching TV Before Going to Bed Causes Chronic Health Problems

    11/07/2009 6:05:01 AM PST · by mlizzy · 33 replies · 1,560+ views
    Natural News ^ | 10-07-09 | Mike Adams
    (NaturalNews) Television viewing before bed is a significant contributor to chronic health problems, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. Although most adults need at least seven to eight hours of sleep per night, as many as 40 percent of U.S. adults fail to get this much. Lack of sleep is a major contributor to chronic health problems, including obesity, heart disease and depression. In an attempt to find easy ways for people to get more sleep, researchers surveyed 21,475 people over the...
  • People with pensions sleep better after retirement

    11/04/2009 7:23:12 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 90 replies · 1,380+ views
    Reuters Health on Yahoo ^ | 11/4/09 | Reuters
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Retirees have something else to look forward to besides playing golf -- much better sleep -- particularly if they have decent retirement benefits and retire relatively early. That's what Dr. Jussi Vahtera of the University of Turku in Finland and colleagues found in a study of 14,714 people who had retired from the French national gas and electric company. But because the workers in the study had excellent retirement benefits, including generous pensions, the findings don't apply to everyone, Vahtera noted in a prepared statement. "In countries and positions where there is no proper pension...
  • A Connection Between Sleep and Alzheimer's?

    09/25/2009 6:26:22 PM PDT · by neverdem · 18 replies · 1,349+ views
    ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 24 September 2009 | Greg Miller
    You shouldn't stay up all night worrying about it, but a new study has found a connection between a lack of sleep and a biomolecule thought to be important in the development of Alzheimer's disease. In both humans and mice, levels of a peptide called amyloid-β rise during waking hours and decline during sleep, researchers have found. They also report that sleep-deprived mice are more prone to developing deposits of amyloid-β, called plaques, like those found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Although far from proven, the finding suggests that sleep disorders could be a risk factor for Alzheimer's. On...
  • VANITY: Anyone use a CPAP machine?

    09/22/2009 2:51:14 PM PDT · by mom3boys · 78 replies · 2,270+ views
    Me
    I was just diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and waiting for a my prescription for my CPAP machine. I'm just wondering if there are any Freepers who've had experience with CPAP. Any hints? Tips? Websites? Will I ever be able to stop using it?
  • Bed sharing 'bad for your health'

    09/10/2009 8:41:28 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 73 replies · 3,086+ views
    bbc ^ | 9 September 2009
    Couples should consider sleeping apart for the good of their health and relationship, say experts. Sleep specialist Dr Neil Stanley told the British Science Festival how bed sharing can cause rows over snoring and duvet-hogging and robs precious sleep. One study found that, on average, couples suffered 50% more sleep disturbances if they shared a bed. Dr Stanley, who sleeps separately from his wife, points out that historically we were never meant to share our beds. He said the modern tradition of the marital bed only began with the industrial revolution, when people moving to overcrowded towns and cities found...
  • Scarborough Mocks Obama Decision Not to Use "Sleep Deprivation" on Terror Suspects - Video 8/25/09

    08/25/2009 7:04:33 AM PDT · by Federalist Patriot · 13 replies · 633+ views
    Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 25, 2009 | BrianinMO
    Here is video from this morning of Joe Scarborough on MSNBC's Morning Joe saying he believes it is a disaster for President Obama to have announced that a special team has been set up to do interrogations of terror suspects that will operate under White House and not CIA control. Scarborough mocked the fact this team will reportedly not use "sleep deprivation" any longer in interrogations. Scarborough said that would play well in "San Francisco" and other elitist neighborhoods, but to average Americans they are thinking, "My God, the do that (sleep deprivation) in fraternities." Scarborough says he believes most...
  • Internet-based Intervention May Improve Insomnia

    07/07/2009 9:31:43 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 22 replies · 392+ views
    sciencedaily ^ | July 6, 2009
    An online insomnia intervention based on established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques appears to improve patients' sleep, according to a new report. About one-third of adults report symptoms of insomnia and approximately 10 percent meet diagnostic criteria for an insomnia disorder, according to background information in the article. The condition decreases quality of life, impairs daytime functioning, has personal and public health consequences and results in an estimated $41 billion in reduced productivity every year. Cognitive behavioral therapy—a psychological treatment focusing on the behaviors and dysfunctional thoughts that contribute to sleep problems—is one of the most effective treatments for insomnia....
  • EATING MELATONIN-RICH CHERRIES ARE ‘‘NATURAL” WAY TO RESET YOUR BODY CLOCK WHEN CROSSING TIME ZONES

    07/11/2009 9:24:53 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 45 replies · 1,719+ views
    EATING MELATONIN-RICH CHERRIES ARE ‘‘NATURAL” WAY TO RESET YOUR BODY CLOCK WHEN CROSSING TIME ZONES Research Reveals that Cherries Boost Your Body’s Melatonin Levels to Help Prevent Jet Lag After Long International Flights It takes mere seconds to reset our watch to a different time zone, but our body’s internal time clocks often take longer to sync up in our new locale. Experienced travelers often stash a bottle of melatonin supplements in their carryon bag to help adjust, but experts say there may be a more natural and tasty way to get melatonin: cherries. Recent studies have revealed that cherries...
  • Sleeping on a problem really can solve it, claim scientists

    06/08/2009 10:04:25 PM PDT · by Schnucki · 11 replies · 441+ views
    Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | June 8, 2009 | Richard Alleyne
    Researchers found that people were able to think more laterally and quickly after a snooze and that if they dreamed the ability was even more enhanced. The scientists believe that "incubating" a problem often leads to a solution but that the effect was increased when people entered a phase of sleep known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM). They believe that REM- which occurs most predominantly just before we awake – helps the brain make connections between unrelated subjects. REM sleep they concluded was "important for assimilating new information into past experience" to come up with solutions to creative problems. The...
  • Getting more sleep 'could help you lose weight'

    05/17/2009 9:18:44 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 13 replies · 634+ views
    Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | May 17, 2009
    A good night's sleep may help you lose weight, a study has suggested. The study of US nurses found those who slept longest were slimmer than those who managed the least shut-eye. Scientists say lack of sleep affects hormone levels that can trigger hunger and slow down your metabolism. Sleep specialist Dr Arn Eliasson said BMI (body mass index) is linked to length and quality of sleep in a surprisingly consistent fashion. Dr Eliasson, of the Integrative Cardiac Health Project at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, Washington DC, said: "When we analysed our data by splitting our subjects into 'short...
  • CIA Terror Suspects 'Kept Awake For 11 Days'

    05/10/2009 3:23:17 PM PDT · by lewisglad · 71 replies · 3,160+ views
    The Times of London ^ | 5/10/09 | Anne Barrowclough
    More than 25 of the CIA's war-on-terror prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation for as long as 11 days at a time during the administration of former president George Bush. At one stage during the war on terror, the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to keep prisoners awake for as long as 11 days, citing memoranda made public by the Justice department last month. The limit was later reduced to just over a week, the report stated. Sleep deprivation was one of the most important elements in the CIA's interrogation programme, seen as more effective than more violent techniques used...
  • Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation

    05/10/2009 2:38:27 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 13 replies · 938+ views
    LATimes ^ | May 10, 2009 | Greg Miller
    As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the CIA's use of severe interrogation methods, the White House fielded a flurry of last-minute appeals. One came from former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, who expressed disbelief that the administration was prepared to expose methods it might later decide it needed. "Are you telling me that under all conditions of threat, you will never interfere with the sleep cycle of a detainee?" Hayden asked a top White House official, according to sources familiar with the exchange. From the beginning, sleep deprivation had been one of the most important...
  • France takes first place in avg. hours of sleep (Explains why they are nation of dreamers)

    05/06/2009 5:28:01 AM PDT · by bestintxas · 4 replies · 420+ views
    Why bother to wake up when there are few jobs and when a wage earner is taxed so heavily to support a welfare state? Look at France, where people with no need to rouse themselves sleep longer than any other group of people in the industrialized world. David Gauthier-Villars reports in the Wall Street Journal: When he won the presidential election two years ago, Nicolas Sarkozy urged the French to get up early and work more to earn more. A study released Monday suggests they missed the wake-up call. France is the industrialized country where people spend the longest periods...
  • 10 ways to get a really good sleep

    03/28/2009 1:40:56 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 48 replies · 1,423+ views
    news.bbc ^ | 27 March 2009
    The weekend looms, and that means a morning lie-in for many - though with the clocks going forward there'll be an hour's less shut-eye on Sunday morning. But, says Sean Coughlan, there's much more to getting a really good kip than just shutting your eyes. Britons are the worst sleepers in Europe, claimed a survey last week, depicting a nation starved of sleep and facing a daily battle against red-eyed exhaustion. Notice in boarding house If it's a good sleep you want, there are rules One in five of the population sleeps for fewer than seven hours a night, according...
  • Robert Gibbs drones on, White House reporter drops off

    03/14/2009 8:21:06 AM PDT · by slomark · 18 replies · 838+ views
    [video] You’re the press secretary for the most powerful man on the planet. You’re in the middle of the greatest financial crisis in generations. Terrorists threaten the future of the world. Under the circumstances, people hang on your every word. Unless you’re Robert Gibbs, the president’s press secretary. He smirks, he snarls, he smears, but even that isn’t enough to keep reporters from falling into deathlike trances during his daily press briefings. One member of the White House press corps actually fell asleep yesterday. You can see her over the left shoulder of the reporter asking the question in this...
  • Proper Sleep May Help Clear Arteries

    12/24/2008 1:07:13 AM PST · by FocusNexus · 48 replies · 3,105+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Dec. 23, 2008 | Ed Edelson
    A good night's sleep may be just what your arteries need. So finds a new five-year study in which middle-aged people who had an extra hour of sleep each night were less likely to have artery-stiffening calcium deposits. Lauderdale and her colleagues have been following a group of young adults for years, studying their heart arteries from a number of angles. The latest report linked the sleeping habits of 495 participants, ages 35 to 47, with the incidence of artery calcification, measured by CT scans. Calcium deposits can make the coronary arteries less flexible and ultimately lead to heart disease....
  • Newark mattress maker offers Obama an American dream

    11/19/2008 7:19:45 PM PST · by Coleus · 8 replies · 640+ views
    star ledger ^ | 11.19.08 | Jeffery C. Mays
    President-elect Barack Obama hasn't named a secretary of state yet and the Obama family hasn't decided which breed of dog will get to romp on the White House lawn. But at the Shifman Mattress Co. in Newark's Ironbound section, there's hope that the new president will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors and choose one of their hand-tufted luxury mattresses to lay his head on. Both the Kennedy and Clinton administrations purchased Shifman mattresses for the White House, so this isn't just wishful thinking, said company president Bill Hammer. The purchases may date back even further, to the Teddy...
  • Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter

    08/03/2008 6:06:59 AM PDT · by shrinkermd · 23 replies · 399+ views
    Scientific American ^ | 7 August 2008 | By Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen
    During slumber, our brain engages in data analysis, from strengthening memories to solving problems ...Until the mid-1950s, scientists generally assumed that the brain was shut down while we snoozed. Although German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus had evidence in 1885 that sleep protects simple memories from decay, for decades researchers attributed the effect to a passive protection against interference. We forget things, they argued, because all the new information coming in pushes out the existing memories. But because there is nothing coming in while we get shut-eye, we simply do not forget as much. Then, in 1953, the late physiologists Eugene Aserinsky...
  • Sleeping soundly 'boosts memory'

    07/14/2008 3:42:04 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 5 replies · 113+ views
    BBC News ^ | July 14, 2008
    A refreshing night's sleep may be the best way to boost memory, a study suggests. Researchers found sleep appears to have a dramatic impact on the way the brain functions the next day. It appears to strengthen connections between nerve cells in the brain - a process key to both learning and memory. The University of Geneva study was presented to a Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference. The researchers studied a group of volunteers who were taught a new skill or shown images they would later have to remember. The skill tasks included trying to follow a moving dot...