Losing Weight While You Sleep Works Says New Study.
Jun 1 2015, 8:41am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr Alyssa Lundahl and Timothy D Nelson A new paper published today says that the less you sleep, the you more you eat. This means a good sleep will help lose weight. Having a good long sleep can help with a diet. A new paper published today in the SAGE journal, Journal of Health Psychology (JHP), says that bad sleep could be one factor contributing to excessive food intake and thus leading to long term chronic health damage in both adults and children. A bad night’s sleep can affect our ability to …
Teens with ADHD need more sleep.
December 29, 2015 – 06:14 | By: Ingrid P. Nuse Sleep issues are more common among teenagers with symptoms of ADHD. And although they need more sleep, they tend to get way less than they need. Adolescents with multiple symptoms of ADHD have a greater need for sleep than others. Yet, a new study has found that they sleep even less than their age peers. (Illustrative photo: NTB Scanpix) We already know that sleep gets short shrift by adolescents generally, and that sleep problems among teenagers aren’t uncommon. “On average, all teens get too little sleep, but adolescents with ADHD symptoms …
What’s it like to wake up with sleep paralysis?
It’s as scary as it sounds. JACINTA BOWLER | 28 DEC 2015 The idea of not being able to move as an intruder or monster comes your way is classic nightmare material, but for some people, this is their reality. Around 7.6 percent of the world’s population has had at least one attack of sleep paralysis, but for some people, the odds are even higher – a 2011 study found that 28.3 percent of students, and 31.9 percent of psychiatric patients experience at least one episode of sleep paralysis in their lives. So what exactly is sleep paralysis? The disorder comes …
The Dark Side and Downsides of Melatonin.
By Piyali Syam • December 16, 2015 at 11:01pm Twenty-one years ago, MIT neuroscientist Dr. Richard Wurtman introduced melatonin as a new solution to sleep problems. His lab patented supplements in hopes of curing insomnia in the older population, whose melatonin receptors calcify with age. “Researchers say pills of the natural hormone…will bring on slumber quickly without the addictive effects of drugs,” the New York Times reported at the time. In the same article, Judith Vaitukaitis, then director of the National Center for Research Resource, said the hormone “offered hope for a natural, non-addictive agent that could improve sleep for …
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