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 …
Expanded Sleep Apnea Screening for MTA Employees Announced.
Published on April 27, 2016 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Senator Charles E. Schumer this month announced the expansion of a successful sleep apnea testing program for MTA employees. Testing was first begun as a pilot program in January 2015 to screen Metro-North Railroad train engineers, and now the MTA will make the program permanent at Metro-North and bring it to other agencies in the MTA family, including the Long Island Rail Road. “This program helps us identify workers who may be at risk for sleep apnea, ensure they receive appropriate treatment, and ultimately create a safer MTA,” says Cuomo in …
Drowsy Driver Detection Systems Sense When You Need a Break.
By Julie Halpert | April 26, 2016 2015 Mercedes Benz C-Class; Cars.com photo by Matt Schmitz CARS.COM — Bleary-eyed drivers are a danger to themselves and others: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that drowsy driving causes more than 80,000 crashes (almost 220 per day) and 850 fatalities each year. Automakers have been offering technology to alert you when you’re about to nod off, and it’s getting more sophisticated. Related: Follow These Tips To Avoid Drowsy Driving Ford’s Driver Alert system is part of a lane keeping assist system. A small, forward-facing camera located behind the rearview mirror …
Is your high-schooler sleep-deprived? Buckle up for bad news/
MELISSA HEALY LOS ANGELES TIMES Texting behind the wheel. Drunken driving. Skimping on sleep. For teens, these are dangerous bedfellows. 3 New research finds that compared to high-schoolers who typically get nine hours of sleep, those who get less shut-eye are more likely to drink and drive, text while driving, hop in a car driven by a driver who has consumed alcohol, and leave their seat belts unbuckled. But while dangerous behaviors escalated with less sleep, too much sleep also was linked to risk-taking in teens: among those who routinely slept more than 10 hours per night, on average, …
Not getting enough sleep? Your body will feel the pain.
16:28 30th March 2016 by Daniel Megarry LIFE > FITNESS Getting more sleep can have a dramatic effect on sports performance, according to a new study. The research, released by Bensons For Beds, revealed that having just two extra hours in bed can increase speed by 15% and reaction times by 12%. Conducted over two weeks, the study challenged members of Durham University Sports Team to five different sports tests, measuring reaction time, strength, pain, speed and endurance at different levels of sleep. Participants increased their sleeping time from seven hours to nine hours, and found that they could withstand …
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 …
9 Good to Know Facts About Sleep.
MAR 4, 2016 Posted By: Emily Burns Sleep is one thing we can all agree to love, yet something we can never quite get enough of. Whether you’re a night owl like me or an early sleeper, these facts about our favorite activity are definitely worth knowing. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 …
8 Ways to Improve Your Sleep Without Sleeping Tabs.
02/29/2016 08:28 am ET | Updated Feb 29, 2016 Toby Nwazor Credit According to the Centre of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between a third and half of all Americans have insomnia and complain of poor sleep. A lot of factors contribute to the growing cases of insomnia and sleep disorders. It could be significant life stress, emotional or physical discomfort, environmental factors or an illness. Whatever the cause too many people have become dependent on sleeping pills to improve their sleep. Sleeping tabs are often used as sedatives and anesthetics. But when used regularly, they have a number of …
The organizational cost of insufficient sleep.
By Nick van Dam and Els van der Helm February 2016 Sleep-awareness programs can produce better leaders. Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. —William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In the passage above, the playwright’s tragic antihero Brutus enviously reflects on the timeless truth that people without worries and anxieties (in this case, his servant Lucius) generally enjoy the most peaceful and uninterrupted rest. Some senior business people skillfully and consciously manage their sleep, emerging refreshed and alert after crossing multiple time zones or working late …
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