Sleep injustice: When your income, job and where you live make sleep hard to get.
ABC Health & Wellbeing By Lisa Cox Posted 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm Updated 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm It’s not hard to imagine how noise, the weather, an unsettled child or a bad day at work could influence how you sleep. But what about where you live, your ethnicity, your education, or your income? Would a factory shift worker from a non-English speaking background who lives in a rough part of town be more likely to have poor sleep than a professional from a well-to-do suburb earning a stable income? Not withstanding the sleep-disrupting pressures …
Poor Sleep May Impair the Ability to Feel Empathy.
Linda Wasmer Andrews If you don’t snooze, you lose some of your capacity for emotional empathy. Posted Oct 03, 2016 Emotional empathy is the ability to share the emotional experience of others. It’s often the driving force behind caring, compassionate behavior. And it’s something that may be in short supply after a bad night’s sleep, according to anew study published online last month by the Journal of Psychophysiology. Lead author Veronica Guadagni, M.Sc., a doctoral candidate at NeuroLab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary, sums up the main finding this way: “If individuals describe their quality …
Epigenetic Zs: Could a bad night’s sleep alter your genes?
Ben Locwin | August 12, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project One thing’s for sure — sleep is still largely a mystery. We’re still not exactly sure why we do it. The more activity we perform or the longer we stay awake, the so-called ‘sleep pressure’ builds up, which is one of the major reasons for the adenosine hypothesis of sleep maintenance. The more sleep — and lack of sleep — have been investigated, the more correlations have been made with health concerns ranging from heart disease and early death to metabolic disorders. The exact and precise causes for these problems have not received a great …
What Happens To The Body If We Don’t Sleep? Obesity, Hallucinations And More.
By Jhesset E Apr 18, 2016 03:59 AM EDT With our daily lives getting busier day by day, it’s hard to devote time to getting some sleep. For some people, the 24 hours in a day is insufficient to finish all their tasks and napping may be considered a waste of time. But sleep is actually very significant. Our brain works the hardest when we are asleep, repairing and strengthening our cognitive and other bodily functions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that insufficient sleep is a public health concern. Their studies showed that with sleep deprivation, several sleep-related …
Athletes awaken to the link between sleep and sports performance/
By MORGAN CAMPBELL Staff Reporter Sun., March 27, 2016 Research says sleeping longer makes athletes play better, and teams tracking sleep stats to find advantages. Rangers slugger Prince Fielder took part in a sleep study after having trouble getting rest during spring training. Increasingly, pro athletes and teams are becoming more aware of the link between proper rest and success. (Charlie Riedel / The Associated Press) As a kinesiology student Alex Malone has a keen awareness of the link between recovery and performance, but didn’t always think it applied to him. One day last winter the star running back at U …
Jawbone User Data Shows Indians Sleep Less Than Most Westerners.
The US-based wearables company has been compiling data on the sleeping and walking habits of its Indian Jawbone Up users, reporting that they rest and walk less than many westerners. November 10, 2015 9:27 PM PST | by Daniel Van Boom Eight hours is said to be the sweet spot of sleep, but it’s an amount that many in the west struggle to get. It’s even worse in India though, with wearables maker Jawbone on Tuesday releasing a report on habits of users in the populous nation. Compiled after analysing data from Up fitness trackers, the report showed the average night of sleep …
College Students Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep. These Universities Are Trying To Change That.
04/19/2015 11:03 pm ET | Updated Apr 20, 2015 Tyler Kingkade Senior Editor/Reporter, The Huffington Post The University of California-Los Angeles recently hosted a series of events on campus to raise awareness about the importance of sleep, reports the student newspaper the Daily Bruin. “There’s a weird pride in certain students when they pull all nighters,” Kendra Knudsen, a coordinator with the UCLA Mind Well initiative, told the Daily Bruin earlier this month. “They need to re-prioritize, if they don’t have time for sleep, looking at their schedule and seeing what is really important.” A temporary nap room was …
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