Archive for the 'Sleep Education' Category
Stay Fit with Regular Sleeping Habits
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung June 18th, 2008 in SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education, Sleep Therapy.
If you are among the people today who are aching to stay fit and maintain the ideal weight levels, you will never guess what the best activity is for being able to achieve proper weight levels. It does not include having to enroll in the usual fitness centers. It all boils down to getting the proper amount of sleep, something many people today are losing in their lives.
A good book to support this claim is this book, Sleep to Be Sexy, Smart and Slim: Get the Best Sleep of Your Life Tonight and Every Night, authored by Julie Bain and Ellen Michaud.
“It really surprised me how many women think sleep is a waste of their time,” says the New York City-based writer and editor. “So many women feel guilty if they’re not doing as much as possible all of the time. But your sleep is not an indulgence.”
(Source) Dallas News
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Lay off the Spicy Meals Before Sleeping
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung June 17th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education, Sleep Issues.
This belief has been passed on through ages. The food we eat can have a bearing on how we sleep and that is why people should really pick what they eat.
Spicy foods are fine to digest but not before you sleep. It would be best to consider that once we want to sleep, our digestive system may not entirely be able to handle the spicy food that some people just cannot avoid.
So aside from having trouble to sleep because of constant tossing and turning, you feel that discomfort of not being able to sleep well because you want to really find the proper sleep position with nothing bothering you in bed.
Several things may account for the effect. An obvious possibility is indigestion. But the scientists also noted that after eating the spicy meals the subjects had elevated body temperatures during their first sleep cycles, which has been linked in other studies to poorer sleep quality.
(Source) The New York Times
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Sleep Reference: 5 Days to a Perfect Night’s Sleep for Your Child
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung June 1st, 2008 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Education, Sleep Issues.
When all else fails, parents will either ask a sleep specialist or maybe hit the bookstores and look for advice in books that specialize in sleep problems. Well just in case you are one of these worried parents, here is a good book that you can surely check out.
This is a good book that can provide you advice on how to establish appropriate sleep habits for your baby and child. The book is authored by Dr. Eduard Estivil, a director of the Sleep Distrubances Clinic at the Institut Dexeus in Barcelona, Spain. He is likewise a practicing pediatrician and a specialist in sleep medicine.
“Well, now think about what you have been willing to do when your child starts bawling at midnight. You stand on your head, do the hokey pokey, imitate Barney, or try to hypnotize your child by swaying the hanging lamp in front of his little face.
“What is the poor kid going to think? He’ll probably want to grow up as quickly as possible so he can sue you.”
(Source) Sun Sentinel
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Managing Jetlag through Food Intake
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 22nd, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education.
For most people who have to travel a lot, you will certainly stumble into certain periods where you have to adjust to the time zone of a certain country. For some countries like traveling from the Philippines to the United States, there are varying differences in time like 12 hours of difference.
In these cases, you will often find yourself supposedly sleeping at their peak time to which you have to adjust because your body will not be able to take it for sure. However, one element in all of this can make a difference and this has to do with the food and meals that this voyager would take in between the time shifts.
“A period of fasting with no food at all for about 16 hours is enough to engage this new clock,” says Prof Saper, who did the work with Drs Patrick Fuller and Jun Lu.
“So, in this case, simply avoiding any food on the plane, and then eating as soon as you land, should help you to adjust - and avoid some of the uncomfortable feelings of jet lag.”
The next time you have to adjust your sleeping period, consider the meals you take. A small fasting sacrifice can really make a difference.
(Source) Telegraph.co.uk
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A Sleeping Sickness called African Trypanosomiasis
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 14th, 2008 in SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education.
We have heard of a lot of sleeping illnesses lingering around the world today and apparently most of them come from varying origins. Sleep disorders and issues are rampant and are continuously causing pains and problems for people. Here is another one of those sleep sickness called the African Trypanosomiasis.
The disease, endemic in southeast Uganda and western Kenya, is caused by parasites and transmitted to humans by tsetse flies. It kills more than 40,000 Africans each year and the animal form of the disease (nagana) kills two million cattle each year.
IT starts with a headache, joint pains and fever. It is the kind you would expect to get over quickly. But after a while, things get worse. You fall asleep most of the time, are confused and get intense pains and convulsions.
If you do not get treatment, your body begins to waste away. Eventually, you slip into coma and die.
So you may say that this disease may eventually be transmitted unseen as the said parasites can easily make their way to your body. So if you think you have the symptoms mentioned above, better have your doctor check you out.
(Source) AllAfrica.com
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