Sleep Schedules Influence Job Performance.
Sleep expert Mark Rosekind highlights what companies can do to help workers’ performance. June 8, 2016 by Kenneth Nowack The National Sleep Foundation, along with scientists from multiple disciplines, in November 2015 announced a consensus on the threshold for when motorists are definitely too tired to drive. It has been estimated that at least 1 million car crashes annually are due to fatigue and drowsy driving. NSF polls indicate that 60 percent of Americans have driven drowsy in the last year and 37 percent report nodding off at the wheel. Irregular schedules can be associated with up to a 50 percent …
Study Links Late Sleep Timing to Poorer Diet Quality and Lower Physical Activity.
Published on June 9, 2016 A study suggests that among healthy adults with a habitual sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours, late sleep timing was associated with higher fast food consumption and lower vegetable intake, particularly among men, as well as lower physical activity. Results show that late sleep timing is associated with lower body mass index and is not associated with total caloric intake; however, it remains associated with poorer diet quality, particularly fast food, vegetable and dairy intake. “Our results help us further understand how sleep timing in addition to duration may affect obesity risk,” says principal …
Improve Your Sleep — and Your Life — With These 8 Tips.
JUNE 2, 2016 PETER GASCA CONTRIBUTOR Entrepreneur, Startup Consultant On a recent flight from London to Atlanta, I had the good fortune to sit next to a very gracious woman. We bonded, not because we had a great number of things in common but rather because she did not complain or object when I inadvertently fell asleep on her shoulder. Maybe not drooling on her neck pillow saved me. When I awoke, we laughed at my narcoleptic tendencies and shared a few tips about how we both manage to sleep on a 500-seat tin cantraveling at 567 miles per hour …
Why Your Sleep App Won’t Solve Your Sleep Problems.
Sleep trackers promise improved sleep, but as I discovered in bed, their data alone can’t address deeper issues. DEREK WALTER |06.01.16 | 8:00 AM The inability to get a proper night’s sleep used to unleash a spectacularly twisted punishment. Instead of being refreshed and rested for the new day, I woke up exhausted, groggy, and often with a pounding headache. Yet the day had to begin, and it usually required a two-cup-of-coffee minimum to get rolling. Sleep was the constant thought in the back of my mind, pestering me like a nagging relative. Then there were the 2 a.m. doldrums. …
Severe, untreated sleep apnea linked to aggressive melanoma.
May 30, 2016 (HealthDay)—Sleep is key to immune function and health, and a new study finds that may be especially true for patients battling melanoma. The study found that severe, untreated cases of sleep apnea—interruptions in nighttime breathing—are linked with more aggressive melanomas. “This is the first large, prospective multicenter study that was specifically constructed to look at the relationship between sleep apnea and a specific cancer,” explained study author Dr. Miguel Angel Martinez-Garcia, from La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital in Valencia, Spain. “While more research is needed, this study shows that patients in the study had markers of …
How Sleep Helps Control Diabetes.
By Jennifer Larson Questions This Article Answers: What are the benefits of good sleep when living with diabetes? What is the connection between sleep and type 2 diabetes? How do I control my diabetes symptoms to get good sleep? If you’re yawning while you read this, we’re not insulted. At least one-third of adults in the United States don’t get enough sleep on a regular basis, and people with diabetes are even more likely to be lacking in the good-quality sleep department. High and low blood sugar levels can interfere with a good night’s sleep. Plus, people with diabetes are more …
Shorter sleep, snoring linked to poorer breast cancer survival.
2016-05-07 15:34:06 The study reports that short sleep duration combined with frequent snoring reported prior to cancer diagnosis may influence subsequent breast cancer survival. Breast cancer patients who reported sleeping 6 hours or less per night and snoring 5 or more nights per week before their diagnosis were 2 times more likely to die from breast cancer than patients who reported sleeping 7 to 8 hours per night and rarely snored. “We were surprised to see that snoring, especially in combination with short sleep duration, had such a strong association with cancer survival for certain cancer types,” said lead …
Snoring can be a sign of sleep apnea.
By Lucette Moramarco on April 29, 2016 A woman keeps an eye on her snoring husband to see if he stops breathing. Sleep apnea is a medical condition that has existed for centuries, but was not given a name until the late 20th century. It is a debilitating and life-shortening ailment that people around the world suffer from. Many of those sufferers do not know they have this potentially dangerous condition which affects more than 18 million Americans, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Many people, like me, don’t become aware sleep apnea existed until a relative or neighbor is …
Dementia screening tool may help identify obstructive sleep apnea.
April 22, 2016 A unique pattern on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neurophysical Status test was able to identify patients with obstructive sleep apnea, according to research presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. Amber Gerber, PsyD, LP, and Donn Dexter, MD, both with the Mayo Clinic Health System, wrote in their abstract that obstructive sleep apnea, which is a common and remediable condition, is a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction. “One in five geriatric patients referred to the Memory Care Clinic at Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wis., have obstructive sleep apnea,” Gerber …
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