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October is SIDS Awareness Month

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Brian Yalung

SIDS has been known as a key identifier as far as infant deaths are concerned and October has been designated as the month to observe and make people aware of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS is a case where healthy babies, normally the sleeping children, die with no immediate cause to be found.

This condition is the number one cause for infants from one month to one year of age, with most deaths occurring between two and four months. The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a set of guidelin

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Five Hours of Sleep Ideal for Women

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Brian Yalung

It looks like women don’t have to sleep like crazy to live longer. Apparently they will need only 5 to 6 hours of sleep to live longer, thanks to some research claims.

The study was made on 459 elderly women in America found that those who slept for between five and six and a half hours a night had the longest survival rates.

In their first study they worked out peoples’ sleeping habits using wrist activity monitors, which are able to tell whether a pers

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Sleep Better or Get Fat!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Brian Yalung

If you are conscious about your weight, then exercising may not be the only solution. In fact, you can probably sleep on it! Especially if you are in your teens, a study suggest that the best ways to fight calories and the fat is to sleep regularly.

This is not the first time we have heard of the link between obesity and sleep loss. It has been reported by other studies that lack of sleep may alter levels of hormones that regulate one’s appetite, but only a few tried to see the influence of sle

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Sleep 7 Hours Is the Median for Sleeping Healthy

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Brian Yalung

6 hours, 8 hours and so on. These are the numbers that people believe to be the magic number for sleeping properly and leading a healthy life. Not so.

The magic number is really 7, the median for sleeping hours and the key towards leading a healthier life. This includes naps which should identify if you are at risk of aligning yourself in contracting a cardiovascular disease.

Sleeping fewer than five hours a day, including naps, more than doubles the risk of being di

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Sleeping with Earplugs Dangerous?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Brian Yalung

For sure a lot of people cannot sleep with all the noise around them. This would largely depend on which area you are situated in. Which leads us to ask, does wearing earplugs damage our ears?

As far as blocking off noise, they are not damaging to your ears. However, it seems that if you look a bit further, long-term use may cause ear wax to build up. Ear plugs block the outward flow of ear wax that our bodies naturally produce in order to self-clean the ears. Foam plugs are often push

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Brain Power Stored During Sleep

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Our brains need the proper recharging and this can only be experience with proper sleep. Apparently we all have our ups and downs and the stress from everyday thinking and decision making will take its toll on the human brain.

Hence, it is not surprising to note why in the initial stages of sleep that energy levels increase in the brain region found to be active during the waking hours. These results suggest that a surge of cellular energy may replenish brain processes needed to function normally while

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Pollution Adds to Sleep Problems

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Brian Yalung

We have identified many types of factors that may hinder sleep and one which was left out has to be pollution. Pollution has caused a lot of havoc, affecting our health and posing a problem for everyday breathing. So is it any surprise that pollution is another environmental factor affecting sleep?

It isn’t surprising at all. Just thing of it, breathing polluted air? How can you breathe easy when you are off to lala land? Now the next best thing is to perhaps take some precautionary measures or perhap

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Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Sleep on the Road

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Brian Yalung

How Miley Cyrus can sleep when she is on the road is a mystery and the singer-actress claims it is her way of fending off jetlag. While this is understandable, her solution to so-called jetlag seems to be something she may want to reconsider.

For one, sleep is where she gets her energy from and while she does try to make up for it when does get back home, the wear and tear of sacrificing sleep will sooner or later catch up with her. At 17 years old this may not be felt but re

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Insomnia Sufferers Will Die Earlier

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Having chronic insomnia is not really surprising as far as health issues are concerned but it seems that a new study has discovered that it could very well be three times deadlier. Though the scientists declined to associate insomnia with mortality, it seems quite alarming at how a person’s life would eventually be sped up as far as living is concerned.

Chronic insomnia was defined as experiencing difficulty falling asleep, problems getting back to sleep, awakening repeatedly o

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Be Stress Free and Sleep Better

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Brian Yalung

It seems only natural that being free from stress, especially for the working class, will lead to better sleep. It makes sense considering sleep also relies on how you are psychologically stable. Relax and let the issues at work be left in the office, never bring it at home.

A sense of organization for an individual as far as putting his daily duties and routines is perspective can go a long way. Sleep can be solicited from addressing all that needs to be done which can lead to a worry-free life

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