What’s More Important for Weight Loss: Exercise, Healthy Eating or Sleep?
In an ideal world, you’d master all three. But, yeah, life happens. So where should you start? Exercising, eating well and getting plenty of sleep are all crucial to shedding pounds, but one might stand out from the crowd. By K. Aleisha Fetters Oct. 16, 2015 | 9:00 a.m. EDT For the past few decades, the question has been, “What’s more important for weight loss: exercise or healthy eating?” And, for decades, we have cut calories, fat and carbs, and spent more money on gym memberships than our parents would have ever imagined. We have also gained, not lost, weight. …
For Our Returning Troops, Post-Traumatic Sleep Disorders Are the New PTSD
Published on October 22, 2015 Sleep deprivation during military deployment is archaic, harmful, and institutionally unavoidable. It may aggravate, and even cause, PTSD in veterans returning from combat, reports Van Winkle’s. The root of veterans’ chronic insomnia, and the PTSD that often develops alongside it, isn’t a disorder that can be cured as part of their post-discharge adjustment. It’s a symptom of larger problems that begin during deployment itself. The military indoctrinates healthy American adults into a “culture of sleep deprivation” that persists throughout their careers, says Shattuck, who works at the Naval Postgraduate Center in Monterrey, California. She says …
Sleep Apnea May Raise Women’s Heart Risk, But Not Men’s
Findings highlight the need to screen women for the nighttime breathing disorder, experts say WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The nighttime breathing disturbance known as sleep apnea can boost a woman’s risk for heart problems and even death, but there was no such effect for men, a new study finds. The finding “highlights the importance of sleep apnea screening and treatment for women, a group who often are not routinely screened for sleep apnea,” study co-author Dr. Susan Redline, a sleep specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said in a hospital news release. The study involved …
High-risk obstructive sleep apnea and sleep/awake bruxism: How do they relate to TMD?
Aug 27, 2015 By Elizabeth Kornegay, RDH, BSDH Editor’s note: During the 2015 annual meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, dentists gathered from across the world to review and present clinical research in the field of dental sleep medicine. This year, like last, DentistryIQ is pleased to share blog posts from some of the AADSM Clinical Research Award winners, including students, which detail the noteworthy findings about their new research. Here, Elizabeth Kornegay, RDH, BSDH, focuses on the connection between sleep apnea and bruxism as they relate to predicting first-onset temporomandibular disorders. Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is a musculoskeletal …
Snoring, apnea linked to diabetes risk in older adults
Health | Thu Oct 8, 2015 11:35am EDT BY MADELINE KENNEDY (Reuters Health) – Seniors with nighttime breathing issues like snoring or sleep apnea often have high blood sugar and may be almost twice as likely as sound sleepers to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Findings from some 6,000 U.S. adults who were followed for up to 10 years suggest that doctors may want to monitor blood sugar in older patients with sleep-disordered breathing, researchers say. “Recent evidence suggests that diabetes patients have a higher prevalence of sleep disturbances than the general population,” lead author Linn …
Are You a Nighttime Tooth Grinder? Here’s How To Tell—And What to Do About It.
George Dvorsky Filed to: DAILY EXPLAINER10/02/15 2:00pm Teeth grinding is a problem that affects nearly one in ten individuals, yet many of us don’t even realize we’re doing it. And that’s a problem given just how harmful it can be to our health. Here’s how to find out if you grind your teeth when you sleep—and why it’s something you shouldn’t ignore. I grind my teeth when I sleep. At least that’s what my dentist tells me. At first I was skeptical, but after handing him over $1,000 in the past year to fix my cracking teeth and disintegrating fillings, …
Goodnight. Sleep Clean.
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock: Here is a great article about why sleep is SO important!! By MARIA KONNIKOVAJAN. 11, 2014 Credit Eiko Ojala SLEEP seems like a perfectly fine waste of time. Why would our bodies evolve to spend close to one-third of our lives completely out of it, when we could instead be doing something useful or exciting? Something that would, as an added bonus, be less likely to get us killed back when we were sleeping on the savanna? “Sleep is such a dangerous thing …
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Snoring
FEB 2, 2015 @ 7:17 AM This is why you do it — and why you should stop. A long day spent at work or home with the kids can leave you desperately longing for a good night’s rest. For chronic snorers and their bedfellows, though, falling and staying asleep isn’t so simple. In fact, what could seem like a harmless annoyance can have surprising consequences that extend beyond bedtime. 1. It can complicate a couple’s relationship. That recent argument with your spouse could be a result of sleep deprivation from his or your snoring. A poll by the National …
At-risk school bus drivers will undergo sleep studies.
Marion County school buses at the main bus barn in Ocala. File By Joe Callahan Staff writer Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 7:02 p.m. Marion County school bus drivers who are at risk of having sleep apnea will be required to undergo a sleep study at the School District’s expense. Apnea can cause people to become sleep deprived and therefore a hazard on the road. District officials want to make sure that drivers who may have the condition are screened and treated for safety reasons. The district entered into an …
6 Things People With Sleep Apnea Wish You Knew
Snoring might not be simply harmless for people living with sleep apnea. Everyday Health By Beth W. Orenstein Posted: 09/18/2015 08:16 AM EDT Misinformation persists about obstructive sleep apnea — when you stop breathing briefly and repeatedly during sleep — even though about 18 million Americans have the common condition, according to the National Sleep Foundation. The number of people with sleep apnea is going up, found a May 2013 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Increases were from 14 to 55 percent over the past two decades, depending on age group and gender. Does someone you know have …
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