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Turtle Projecting Night Light

Brian Yalung — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:03:39 +0000

Kids are known to be afraid of the dark and in case parents don’t want to leave on their lights for energy conservation purposes, the Constellation Projecting Turtle Night Light should be something cool to have on while kids go to sleep.

Night lights have been known to be a good solution, especially for people who get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom or even to grab a snack at the kitchen. Instead, you get this projecting night light that could likewise set the proper tone in a room, a mood that should get your young one drowsy and sleepy.

The Constellation Projecting Night Light costs $34.95 over at Hammacher Schlemmer in case you are interested.

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Not Sleeping is not a great Weight Loss Solution

Brian Yalung — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:59:37 +0000

For some people, staying awake at night seems to be a great way to lose some fat but this is by far not the best weight-loss solution you can consider. A body can reportedly burn about 161 calories for people who pass on sleep but is not a great weigh-reducing solution. The body tries to make up for the deficit by saving more energy than usual the next day and night according to the Journal of Psychology.

After staying up all night, volunteers burned about 28 fewer calories during eight hours of recovery sleep than they had during a full night of regular sleep. And the energy conservation didn’t stop there. In the 24-hour period during which people caught up on missing sleep, they burned about 228 fewer calories than during a comparable period in which they were sleep-deprived. Overall, when people slept normally, they expended 96 more calories than they did on days when they were making up for lost sleep.

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The Dreaded Daylight Saving Time Adjustment

Brian Yalung — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 04:21:29 +0000

Each year, select parts of the world would practice Daylight Savings Time with the hopes to save on energy, a practice that goes way back to the 1800s. While this should fare well as far as energy conservation is concerned, sleepers have issues against it.

Daylight Savings Time is setting back the clock by an hour, something that people dread and laud. For the sleeping people, adjustment is an issue. As some people struggle to get good and fluent sleep, DST forces them to sacrifice one hour.

One hour of sleep may not be too much of a fuss, but don’t tell that to the hard-hit troubled sleepers. All they can do is groan and moan but the fact remains that this practice does have good intentions, sleeping not included!

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TV Sleep Timers have a Purpose

Brian Yalung — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:03:32 +0000

There are some people who cannot sleep with total silence. Some want to have the TV on which in turn would help them go to sleep. But the thing is, would you leave the TV on despite various news on fires starting from leaving them on and the growing issue of energy conservation.

This is not to deprive people from following their modern practice. But you can really turn to a compromise of sorts in case you overlooked the features that come with your TV sets.

There is normally a sleep mode function that you can see on the remote so why not use it? Set your TV sleep timer to perhaps 30 minutes or 60 minutes if you think you will not be sleeping anytime soon. At least you can sleep and be assured that the TV set automatically turns off after the set time you set. Now that wasn’t hard was it?