Most people nowadays are busy trying to burn those excess calories solicited from the just concluded Holidays and while many feel that exercise and cutting down the food intake is all that it takes to do so, hold on a second.
While controlling food intake and exercise may do that, do not forget the most important factor of all – SLEEP. Studies have shown that people would need 7.5 to 8.5 hours of sleep to truly reap the benefits of dieting.
Studies have demonstrated that lack of sleep lea
It seems that a lot of people have shown confidence on the SLEEPTRACKER, a device pegged to help people sleep better from Innovative Sleep Solutions. To date, the device has reportedly helped about 150,000 people worldwide, helping people wake up refreshed.
The SLEEPTRACKER Elite monitors a person’s sleep patterns to detect the possible waking time. Through this process, users no longer have to worry about losing or lacking sleep. They can sleep at the proper time, refreshed and totally good to
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
While most celebrities are trying to figure out how to manage their time and get some sleep, here is somebody who truly values sleep. Diva Mariah Carey makes sure she gets the proper amount of shuteye to make sure she takes care of her singing voice well.
This was revealed by husband Nick Cannon who on his part is content getting 2 to 4 hours of sleep.
The same holds true for Jennifer Lopez, investing heavily on sleep to make sure she doesn’t lose her voice quality. So for sin
Not that this is a Woody Woodpecker type of an alarm clock, this unique gadget from Natalie Duckett helps enhance your sleep with the drumming sound of woodpeckers two times a day.
The clock is made of natural materials, mostly wood. The sound of the woodpecker drumming can be changed by what surface the clock is put up against or on top of. The evening alarm is automatically set to go off for when the sleeper should be in bed in order to get 8 hours of sleep.
Sandra Bullock has been having less sleep these days, as can be seen by the dark glasses she has constantly donned. And while we are all aware of the celebrated marital issues that have beset the popular actress, it seems that she is leaving all that behind by embracing motherhood even if it means getting less sleep.
Bullock claims that she is only getting three hours of sleep after getting custody of her adopted son Louis earlier this year. Hence, Bullock doesn’t want
For the elderly folks, valuing their way of living for the remaining years of their lives should be given focus. And if you think that surrendering them at Assisted-Living Facilities (ALFs) is the best alternative is the best solution, guess again. It seems that thanks to a study, their way of living is placed in jeopardy, especially if you talk about the value of sleep that they should be getting.
Elder people need longer hours of sleep and if this study by the Journal of the American Geriatrics S
Sleep would normally be contribute to weight gain but it seems that it can be a good way to stay slim as well. At least that is what some researchers found when normal-weight young men consumed extra calories when they had just four hours of sleep the night before compared to when they slept for eight hours.
Given the findings and the fact that people have been sleeping less and getting fatter over the past few decades, “sleep restriction could be one of the environmental
For any country or region, there will be a place that will solicit the tag of being the “Sleep Deprived Capital”. And as far as the United Kingdom is concerned, the unlikely tag is pointing to Aberdeen after a survey was conducted. According to the collected information, people over there slept just 5 hours and 23 minutes a night.
People in the UK at an average enjoy six hours and seven minutes, which is far lesser than the recommended eight hours of sleep every night. And like most
It seems that sleep loss is more serious that we thought. While we all know that chronic sleep loss does affect the memory, it seems that reflex action and other brain function can severely be affected as well. A study over at the Harvard Medical School can attest to that when they put nine volunteers on a specialized sleep-wake schedule made of 33 hours of wakefulness and 10 hours of sleep.
Using a series of tests, the researchers measured the subjects’ reflexes, motor skills
