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Adults Sleep Less With Age?

Adults Sleep Less With Age?

Healthy or not, adults do sleep less when they become older. And while you may think this would result in them putting their health at risk, guess again. In fact, they are less likely to feel tired as a study showed. The study was published in SLEEP, the official journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.

The length of time that people slept varied in age. For example, elders aged 66 to 83 slept about 20 minutes less than middle-aged adults aged 40 to

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Sharad Kelkar Now Sleep Deprived

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Actor Sharad Kelkar is the newest member of the sleep deprived club thanks to a hectic life in the showbiz industry leaving him with little time to sleep. He has been shooting for long hours which approximate between 16 to 17 hours a day. While he does intend to resolve his sleeping problem, it is apparent that this is just one of the many things that a person has to pay for fame.

To try and make up for lost sleep, he is trying to complete the shooting for Bairi Piya so that he can have a long rest afte

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Ohio Day Care Sued for Using Melatonin on Kids

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Holding a daycare is serious work but to putting kids to rest or sleep is something that they should specialize in, especially if they become tired. However, it does not follow that they should use supplements or drugs to put kids to sleep. Other than being dangerous, kids should not be exposed to such kinds of supplements. Besides, they have a duty to do and by resorting to this act, it is a way of cheating people for their money and gambling with the little tykes’ health.

The lawsuit was filed against the Covenant Apostolic Church Inc. where day care workers reportedly u

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Meet Jess the 3 Year Old Sleepwalker

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Sleepwalking is normally expected from adults but for a 3 year old? Well she is from Britain and she has been the subject of a documentary. This sleepwalking problem has been plaguing the family for 2 years and Jess has been living a practical double life. During the day she is like any jolly little girl but at night she goes into a trance acting out elaborate scenes and is unable or unwilling to communicate.

No one knows if she’s awake or asleep. And while these things may seem fascinating, her health is at risk. Sleep is still essential for brain development and of cours

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Medical Residents Have to Sleep After 16 Hours of Service

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For anyone, there is a limit as to how far you can go as far as staying awake is concerned. Particularly for people in profession, it would be wise to know when to keep on going and when to sleep. As far as medical people are concerned, it has been found that after 16 hours, they better slow down and get some rest if they want to remain competent.

Forced to go beyond that could lead to inconsistency as far as rendering their expertise and that

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Sick Leave due to Sleep Apnea

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For employees, benefits that include sick leaves are only normal. But while we are used to seeing common excuses as fever, flu and bowel movements as their reason for not reporting for work, you may be surprised that sleep apnea can become the next reason for being absent.

People who have sleep issues are expected to perform below par. And we all know that productivity needs full attention as well

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World of Warcraft Adding to Sleep-Deprived Numbers

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Online gaming has been identified as one of the major reasons why most kids and teens are losing sleep, being glued too much on their computer to play their online adventure games and slug it out with other players from the world. Apparently, this means sacrificing sleep as well, something that has become a concern for parents on the health of their kids.

Blizzard Entertainment cannot be blamed for developing such games. In fact, much of the responsibility is pegged a

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Heartland Hottie Star Dies in Sleep

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The worst thing you would want to hear is for someone to die while sleeping. We have heard quite a number of these in local towns and for this Heartland Hottie star, very little may be known about her. Miss Sai Fengmin was a good model to take pictures of but no thanks to a bump on the head that eventually was becoming serious leading to brain injury.

These days a slight knock on the head can no longer be taken for granted. Worst, it may do its traitorous wor

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Get Better Sleep through Stretching Regularly

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When it comes to sleep, we hardly want to be active so that we can relax and perhaps be lulled to sleep. But the thing is, we do not sleep 24 hours a day. Now that would be really lazy and we may even get a headache in the process.

Exercise is something good for the heart and is associated and getting great sleep. Routine exercise such as yoga or tai chi can be helpful to our bodies as far as making sure our blood flow is better. But for some people, particularly the elderly, our body metabolism is likewis

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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Pounds on Heart Attacks

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As far as our health is concerned, we are all aware that the worst type of illness or diseases that we can encounter would be heart attacks or stroke. For one thing, they can occur at any time and is one reason why most of us are trying to eat and stay healthy.

So much for this issue when we are awake, how about when we are asleep? It has been proven that no thanks to obstructive sleep apnea, the potential existence of heart attacks during our sleep can occur. This is perhaps the manner to which we cannot

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