You can add another issue to highlight among teens if they lack sleep. A study showed that lack of sleep could become a high risk issue for teens who lack sufficient shuteye. Teens who go to be after midnight are more likely to experience depression, especially the ones who get less than 5 hours of sleep. Worst, 50% of those sleep-deprived teens may even commit suicide!

Doctors recommended that parents remove television sets and video games from teenagers’ rooms to help them get nine hours of sleep each night. Make sure they get sufficient sleep to avoid falling into these sleep issues and trauma.

(Source) Foxreno

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If you want to achieve a lot, let this be a warning; don’t sacrifice sleep. It is not easy for sure. Thinking of what to do or how to address a current issue, chances are you may be lying on your bed but will not be sleeping at all.

Oprah Winfrey is a clear example. Outside that of a hectic schedule, her frustrations on how to address her weight problem and arrange her busy schedule is taking its toll. They are making life miserable for this popular talk show host and unless she addresses these calmly and with proper rest, she may be among the high risk people the world has today.

With a crazed schedule, Winfrey began suffering sleep issues and heart palpitations. Four doctors and several prescriptions later, the sleep Winfrey craved didn’t come. But the added pounds did.

(Source) Chicago Sun Times

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As far as determining if you are among the millions of people suffering from sleep apnea, it would take a specialist and sleep equipment to determine if you do have this dreaded sleeping betrayer. Apparently, most of us hear of sleep apnea but with regards to its presence, it is something we would not care about unless we submit ourselves to be checked by licensed sleep physicians.

Thus far, we know that snoring is a clear sign of its presence. Further, sleep apnea is risky. If in cases we have trouble breathing at night (without our knowledge), we are entertaining a high risk of heart failure should air fail to pass by smoothly. A lot of people have had this problem and most of them have succumbed. Don’t be among the people who have suffered this plight. See a doctor and discount that possibility. The difference can be a matter of life and death.

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, some narrowing of the throat occurs for everyone during sleep because the muscles relax, but it causes no problems under normal conditions. For others — those with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, or OSAS — the breathing passage narrows to the extent that breathing becomes difficult, likened to “breathing through a floppy, wet straw” by AASM. This causes snoring, which often alerts someone sleeping next to a person with OSAS, but it is more than that, Hanley said, noting the resulting lack of oxygen in the body can cause major health concerns.

(Source) Newsminer

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As far as getting proper sleep is concerned, most people who have found themselves searching for it have obviously found themselves on the losing end and apparently are underachieving. This includes being successful in your career, work, and most of all, maintaining a healthy body and lifestyle.

People today are geared more towards doing more, meeting deadlines and sacrificing by pushing themselves to the limit. At first this does sound noble and something others should follow by example. But if you talk about putting yourself in high risk by leaving your body an open battlefield where diseases and illnesses can penetrate then that is another story.

You cannot expect to be fulfilled and successful if you do not rest and sleep. We can see this as our haggard bodies show something that is missing. If we do have problems with sleeping, a short visit to the doctor or specialist really wouldn’t hurt.

“For healthy people, there’s a big temptation to voluntarily restrict sleep, to stay up an hour or two or get up an hour or two earlier,” said Dr. Greg Belenky, director of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane.

“But you’re really reducing your productivity and exposing yourself to risk,” Belenky added.

(Source) Yahoo Health

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