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DST Time and the Need for Sleep Adjustments
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 8th, 2008 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Daily savings time will be implemented on March 10 and while many are getting ready for the time adjustments, sleep should be adjusted as well. While we are all aware that sleep is equally important, some sleeping patters are sure to change along with this.
Most people don’t like it but to help save up on energy resources, this is the best solution they can think of right now until someone can cite any other recourse in lieu of it.
According to a survey released this week by the U.S.-based National Sleep Foundation, most people simply aren’t getting enough sleep. Studies suggest we replay the day’s events in our minds when we sleep, and if we don’t get enough (sleep, that is) these events don’t get implanted into our memory.
Missing another hour of sleep this weekend when we move our clocks ahead will most likely contribute to a frenzy of forgetfulness.
(Source) London Free Press
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New Gadgets Causing Couple Sleep Issues
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 7th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP Gadgets, SLEEP News, Sleep Education, Sleep Issues.
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
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Daylight Savings Time can be a Sleep Hazard
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 6th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
We have all been exposed to time adjustments such as daily savings time (DST) where we have to adjust hours to save on electricity and energy resources. This takes off an hour from our regular sleep and while the intent is good, it may be the other way around as far as sleep deprived people are concerned.
Our bodies have certain clocks that they follow. Even if the need of such adjustments are a given, our bodies still yearn for that proper time where we have to get up. It is at this point where we may have to make a choice; go with the time adjustment or deal with sleep deprivation issues in other means that we can.
“With sleep deprivation we are going to have delayed reaction times, we want to be more aware when driving into work, we’ll be a little more compromised, be more careful driving into work, be more prone to accidents while at work, particularly those who work in the industrial sector, working with machinery,” he said.
(Source) Wcco.com
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Internet Tools to Mediate Sleep Disorders
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 5th, 2008 in How to sleep better, SLEEP Gadgets, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Therapy.
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
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Working Your Way to Less Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 4th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Business, Sleep Disorders.
It is commendable to see employees on how much they devote time towards targeting better lives and developmental careers. However, health should not be sacrificed on its behalf. Sleep is one thing that we sacrifice in our drive to be better as far as career is concerned. But what is a career if you end up being at risk as far as your health is at risk.
This is a common image we see in the world today. People aim high but forget about their health. We all want to reach to top. But if we do it this way, we may not even have enough strength to enjoy our accomplishment in the end due to lack of sleep and respite.
“There’s enough data now to clearly show that if you’re not sleeping enough, that’s going to dramatically affect your performance and productivity,” said Mark Rosekind, a former director of the Center for Human Sleep Research at the Stanford University Sleep Center who helped design the poll.
(Source) Reuters India
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