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No Sleep, But Plenty of Health Risk
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung January 22nd, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News.
If you think you are doing yourself a favor by sacrificing sleep to lose weight guess again. It is the exact opposite. You are gaining weight and putting yourself at risk of illnesses, especially heart-related problems.
Remember that you are no longer young and the body metabolism slows down in the process. But the real deal here is your health. Better read more of it here to find out how you can adjust to getting the proper amount of sleep. There is even a video there you can watch.
Ouch, it’s time to go to bed, right? But now you can’t fall asleep because you heart is pumping from excitement over the latest news. After a couple of weeks, you notice that you lack energy, and aches and pains are arising that you have not had before.
You start to make appointments with doctors to get to the bottom of the pains. Yet, nobody can find anything wrong. You try physical therapy, pain medication and natural remedies. Still no success. Might sleep be the cause of the issues?
(Source) ABC News
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Overweight Linked to Sleep Deprivation
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 31st, 2007 in Health Issues, Sleep Disorders.
Weight watchers may want to check out other factors than the food they eat. Lack of sleep has been found to be a contributing factor towards why most people, especially the kids, have been suffering obesity issues.
The amount of sleep hours we observe are important. One good insight is the fact that some people have this belief that eating excessively can more than make up for the lack of sleep that kids would normally have to deal with.
There are a number of reasons why a kid would lose the proper amount of sleep:
- Playing games (Playstation or Xbox) on extended hours
- Staying out late with friends
- Cramming to study
- Sleeping area
- Television
- The Internet
These are normally the reasons that kids would state and they are indeed a fact. While it is a the duty of most guardians and parents to make sure that kids sleep at the right time, closer monitoring can be good for their health.
(Source) A study of 7-year-olds has found that sleeping less than nine hours a night was associated with being overweight or obese, even after accounting for amounts of television watching and physical exercise.
The study, being published Tuesday in the journal Sleep, also found that short sleep duration was associated with mood swings. The researchers had followed the subjects — 519 children in New Zealand — since birth, making periodic health and developmental assessments and interviewing their parents.
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