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Sharad Kelkar Now Sleep Deprived

Posted on December 27, 2009 by Brian Yalung

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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Sleep CD Could be the Perfect Christmas Gift

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Here is a gift you can give yourself or any friend who you know is suffering from sleep deprivation or even insomnia. The Harmonic Sleep CD from Sound Health Products does offer the usual soothing sounds to make you sleep but features subliminal “harmonics” that are said to encourage slow, relaxing sleep waves in the brain even though they are too faint to hear. Alternatively, the Delta Sleep System CD contains tones that supposedly match the frequency of delta sleep waves, in theory cuing the brain to make sleep waves of its own.

Both CDs are sold at various site

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Older Women Sleep More, Exaggerate Insomnia More

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Brian Yalung

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Older women are believed to have more sleep issues than older men but did you know that they complain more? Weird as it may seem, sleep deprivation has been bugging both genders but of the two, a research finds that women are actually getting better sleep than men.

Through a study participants kept a sleep diary and wore a device called an actigraph on their wrists to determine their sleeping behavior and sleep patterns. And afterwards, the actigraphs themselves revealed that men actually had less sleep than women at 6 ½ hours. Women slept 15 minutes more.

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Parents Need to Adjust Sleep Patterns Once Again

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Brian Yalung

With the school year set to start soon, parents will now have to adjust once again their sleeping habits to make sure that their children get the proper preparations when trooping back to school commences. This is a familiar cycle where you have to admit that once Summer sets in, parents enjoy the break as well since they avoid having to wake up early to attend to their little tykes.

It is important that parents recognize that getting less sleep can affect disposition, learning ability, and recall. Parents with existing sleeping disorders need to be especially careful during

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Work Shifts Depriving Workers of Sleep

Posted on June 11, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Sleep deprivation is common for people who have to work on shifts. There are a lot of factors contributing to it. But among them include that of the body clock. Normally, we are all used to standard sleep at night scenario but no thanks to the jobs that cater to different time zones, the need to earn a living despite this constraint has to be done.

The only bright note about it is that the pay is better. Companies provide night differential for taking on graveyard shift but you jus

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Equine Sleep Disorders

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Now this type of sleep disorder has not been proven to be common in humans but if studies make any progress, Equine Sleep Disorders may soon be found to be a new type of sleep disorder that we have to deal with.

The good news is that for now, it is a disorder linked to horses. But if advanced research and studies have their way, we may just hear about this sleep disorder linked to the human gene pool.

In the February 2007 issue of EQUUS magazine, California veterinarian Joe Bertone, DVM,

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World of Warcraft Adding to Sleep-Deprived Numbers

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Brian Yalung

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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Sleep Deprived Students Need Help

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Brian Yalung

Other than getting the right education, most students have to deal with sleep deprivation sooner or later to keep up with the strains of fulfilling requirements for school. We see today that teenagers no longer have the luxury of taking their time before they study and hit the sack. These days, they have to be fully aware that untimely insertion of extra-curricular activities is like taking the place of sleep time.

This is not to condone their acts. But the fact of the matter is even t

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Bionovo May Solve Menopausal Hot Flashes

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Brian Yalung

One thing about sleep deprivation in women is that when they have hot flashes during sleep, tendency is for them to get up and do the necessary to ease the discomfort. While there are a number of ways to go about it, sleep is something that serves as collateral damage as it is also affected when pains of menopausal disorders strike.

But thanks to this ongoing solution from Bionovo, women may yet see the last of these issues as the Emeryville business (N

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Do you Wish You Could Sleep like a Baby?

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Brian Yalung

Sleep has to be one of the prime problems that most people are facing today and while many see therapists or even turn to the sleeping pills that induce sleep, natural ways have been found to be always safer and smarter. Apparently this is one reason why ScentToSleep has slowly come into its own, offering aroma therapy through scents like lavender to help in aiding people suffering from sleep deprivation and insomnia issues.

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