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Beauty and Health from Quality Sleep Habits

Brian Yalung — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:20:34 +0000

When you talk about staying fresh and maintaining beauty, women will be the first to step up and claim that sleep will be one of the essential things needed to make it all happen. Nothing beats the gift of a good sleep to make sure that their complexion will retain its usual rich self. Remember that each battered body due to lack of sleep will always claim drastic results in the end.

You can just look at the people who suffer from insomnia and other related sleep disorders we hear of today. Most of them always look haggard and are prone to various illnesses as well. If women had their way, they would want to get valued sleep at the best times advisable so that they in turn can avoid physical and internal problems that come along with lacking the proper fruits of restful slumber.

Most Women know that nothing kills a good complexion like a bad night’s slumber; there’s a reason, after all, that it’s called beauty sleep. If that’s not motivation enough to keep up with your nightly shut-eye, here’s another: doctors are learning that poor sleep habits may make women more vulnerable than men to heart disease and diabetes.

(Source) Time

New Gadgets Causing Couple Sleep Issues

Brian Yalung — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:41:18 +0000

As far as we know, couples normally want to see their partner by their bedside when they sleep. But thanks to the fast development of technology, gadgets have now become an obstacle and are contributing towards forcing couples to sleep on separate rooms.

Gadgets range from cellular phones to modern technology developed consoles and rather than sleeping soundly with your loved one beside you, most people have preferred to stay awake and tinker around with them rather than getting good sleep.

So in a sense, you may call technology a bane in some sense. But if you look at it, it may come down to a choice on which is more important; your relationship or your gadget.

“Busy night-time routines are driving couples’ bedtimes and even their bedrooms apart,” the British media quoted Jessica Alexander of the Sleep Council, which carried out the study, as saying.

In their study, the researchers surveyed 1,400 people in Britain between Feb 27 and March three.

They found that one in ten couples sleep in different beds every night while a quarter admit to doing so on a daily basis; four in ten people go to bed at a different time to their partner.

(Source) The Economic Times

Internet Tools to Mediate Sleep Disorders

Brian Yalung — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:57:21 +0000

Technology has been known to provide us with solutions and sleep disorders are not about to be left behind. Using the medium of the Internet to determine the dysfunctional problems that we have to deal with before we get good sleep needs to be monitored and analyzed. Today, there is a new tool that is being psyched up to help transfer data to the specialists so that they can in turn help provide feasible answers on why people have to deal with sleepless nights.

The devices monitor body indicators during a patient’s sleep, such as blood-oxygen levels, nose airflow pressure and whether air passages are obstructed. They feed the information to specialists via the internet.

They are being trialled in the forehead of nasal masks already worn by patients with sleep apnoea, a common condition where breathing difficulties disrupt sleeping patterns.

(Source) Stuff.co.nz

Sleep Better and Live Wiser

Brian Yalung — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:00:33 +0000

Sleep is something free and familiar with anyone today. But the real benefits of good sleep really become a privilege for the lives of people who would not really value their health and well-being until they are made aware of deficiencies due to abuse of their body.

Remember, we draw our energy from sleep. It does not come solely from food or other artificial means or medication. The natural way towards smarter living is still observing the proper sleeping habits we hear of today.

Nothing kills your ability to get things done faster than a bad night’s sleep. Studies show that sleep deprivation costs Americans significant work productivity; yawning employees can’t stay alert, make good decisions, focus on tasks or even manage a friendly mood at the office. There are lots of ways to beat insomnia, increase the quality of your sleep.

(Source) Lifehacker

The Wise Way to Solicit Good Sleep

Brian Yalung — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:42:35 +0000

People often search for the best alternative to sleep properly today. A lot of them have even resorted to relying on sleep gadgets that can help lull them to sleep. But the question is, do people really have to spend that much to get that proper respite? The thing is, people have planted in their minds and made themselves believe that sleep needs that psychological push to achieve.

While this cannot be readily taken out, the point of it all is that if people are really inclined to get a good sleep then it all starts with sizing themselves up and conditioning minds to get that much longed for sleeping practice.

Here are some tips just in case people have forgotten the natural ways of getting proper sleep.

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Sleeping Gadgets: A Sleeptracker Watch Sleep Solution

Brian Yalung — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:38:44 +0000

People having trouble sleeping will resort to anything to be able to get a good sleep. In this new sleeping gadget called the Sleeptracker, it may not bring back the restless period of being able to sleep but rather it helps identify the facts that should be considered for people to sleep better.

Here is the video that further explains more in depth about this sleeping gadget called the sleeptracker.

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How to sleep better Links

Brian Yalung — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:30:42 +0000

Here’s some good articles on how to sleep better: