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Diet Soda and Lack of Sleep = Heart Attack

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Brian Yalung

Soda drinkers listen up. While you may be forced to limit your soda intake, you may want to watch your sleeping habits. A study shows that if you are not careful, you may be at risk of a heart disease. This study is from the University of Miami, where 2,500 soda drinkers were evaluated.

They found those who drank diet soda daily were 61 percent more likely to have a vascular event such as a stroke. They found chronic short sleep produces hormones and chemicals that increase your risk of developing he

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Breastfeeding Mothers Sleep as long as their Babies

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Mothers were believed to be suffering from sleepless nights, especially the one’s who have just given birth due to their breastfeeding itineraries. However it seems that this claim is not true. A study was able to prove this, negating the belief that by breastfeeding causes less sleep.

This should be a relief for babies in particular since we breastfeeding has always been known to be the best milk for babies. However, due to health (sleep concerns) issues, some mothers have fended off breas

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Vapor Rub still helps Kids Sleep Better

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Brian Yalung

For the kids who find themselves suffering from cough and colds, an old time practice of using vapor rub is still the best solution. The ancient practice has been used to soothe kids (and even adults) who had coughs and colds which help them in their respiratory problems and thus affecting their sleep. And with the support of the folks over at the Penn State College of Medicine, it looks like vapor rub application is still the best way to go.

Vapor rubs, containing menthol, camphor and e

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Care to Try the Sleep Diet?

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Brian Yalung

If you have tried all efforts to slim down, then perhaps sleep is the answer to losing some excess pounds. Weird as it may seem, a study was able to prove this and overall showed that a good night’s sleep is your ticket to a better body and better life.

During the study, adults were asked to sleep for 8.5 and 5.5 hours. The researchers measured loss of fat and lean body mass and found that those people who slept 8.5 hours per night lost 56 per cent more body fat than those who slept only 5.5 hour

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Improve your Sleep Schedule

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Everyone has varying sleep schedules but have you noticed any changes to your body lately? Well if you see some bulges, chances are you may have to change your sleep schedule or else face the fat!

Apparently staying up late can affect metabolism, something that helps you burn those excess calories. And a new study from the Ohio State University and the University of Haifa in Israel found through mice, that people may suffer from obesity when their sleep cycle is disrupted by exposure to light.

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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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