How can you help the economy? Get some sleep!
By: Editorial Board | December 23, 2016, 12:20pm The world is neck-deep in surefire fixes for a country’s economy. Cobble together trade deals, rip up trade deals. Build more, tax less. Let wealth trickle down, help the masses in society’s bottom rungs. There’s a much more straightforward prescription that doesn’t cost anything and is actually quite pleasant: Go to sleep! That’s the upshot of a recent study from the Rand Corporation. As it turns out, lack of sleep isn’t just bad for our health. It’s bad for the economy. Rand says the sleep deficit is robbing the economies of the …
Medical Mystery: Who’s snoring in the White House?
Updated: JANUARY 1, 2017 — 3:01 AM EST | by Allan B. Schwartz, For The Inquirer William Howard Taft was our heaviest president, weighing in at 320 pounds when he took office in 1909, and as much as 340 pounds when he left four years later. In that era before the obesity epidemic, his size was extraordinary. One cartoon pictured the 6-foot president wedged into a White House bathtub, unable to get out. Wags called him the “walrus in wingtips”; his suits were said to be “like tarpaulins” straining at the buttons. At 6 feet tall, his peak body mass …
When is snoring worth worrying about? A Q&A with a Stanford sleep surgeon
Jennifer Huber on December 28, 2016 I’m a sensitive sleeper when it comes to snoring. When I visit my dad, his snoring — through walls and doors — keeps me awake. Pondering an upcoming holiday visit got me wondering: “Is that annoying snoring something to worry about?” Snoring results from interrupted breathing during sleep. When someone’s upper airway repetitively collapses, vibrations from the soft palate and tongue can create the characteristic sound of snoring. “Habitual snoring is a nuisance to bed partners,” Stanford sleep surgeon Stanley Yung Liu, MD, DDS, told me. “Many patients seek care because they’ve been asked …
Studies About Later School Start Times May Be ‘Weak,’ But Move Likely Would Help Teens Sleep Better
DEC 27, 2016 @ 09:57 AM | Rita Rubin , CONTRIBUTOR If you have teenagers in your house like I do, you probably haven’t seen much of them before noon during winter break. That’s because they’re luxuriating in the freedom to sleep past dawn. “It has been increasingly recognized that high school students get less sleep than is recommended,” write the authors of a review article in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. No duh! They have to get up so darn early these days. Anecdotal information suggests high schools start earlier than they did back …
Sleep apnea tied to diabetes and hypertension during pregnancy
Published December 21, 2016 | Reuters Pregnant women who experience certain breathing problems during sleep may be more likely to develop complications like high blood pressure and diabetes, recent U.S. research suggests. In the study of more than 3,000 women, researchers did home-based sleep studies twice during pregnancy to check for what’s known as apnea, a potentially serious sleep disorder that involves repeated stops and starts in breathing. Risk factors for sleep apnea include older age and obesity. Women who had sleep apnea were almost twice as likely to develop what’s known as preeclampsia, a type of pregnancy-related high blood …
The biggest health trend for 2017? Clean SLEEPING. You know about clean eating – now in a new book, Clean Beauty, Gwyneth Paltrow and her team of experts at Goop show you how the same approach can boost your sleep
Gwyneth Paltrow says she gets at least seven or eight hours of sleep a night It plays a powerful role in determining your appetite and energy levels She says it should be your first priority – even before you think about your diet By Gwyneth Paltrow And The Editors Of Goop PUBLISHED: 18:34 EST, 18 December 2016 | UPDATED: 05:43 EST, 22 December 2016 You might think it’s just a midlife thing, but if you find yourself feeling irritable, anxious or depressed, if you get easily frustrated, forgetful or struggle to cope with stress like you used to, it …
Teens benefit from later high school start times
Teens may get more sleep, have fewer motor vehicle accidents when school starts later Date: December 15, 2016 Source: American Academy of Sleep Medicine Summary: Later high school start times are associated with positive outcomes among teens, including longer weekday sleep durations and reduced vehicular accident rates, research suggests. To promote optimal health, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teens between the ages of 13 and 18 years should sleep 8 to 10 hours per 24 hours on a regular basis. Credit: © Vitaly Krivosheev / Fotolia A review of the scientific literature by a workgroup composed …
Trump says he only sleeps a few hours each night — and there could be a scientific reason why
Lydia Ramsey | Dec. 8, 2016, 10:48 AM | BusinessInsider.com President-elect Donald J. Trump reportedly only needs a few hours of sleep every night. While on the campaign trail, he said, “You know, I’m not a big sleeper. I like three hours, four hours, I toss, I turn, I beep-de-beep, I want to find out what’s going on.” Trump’s not the only one: Corporate executives like PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and even President Barack Obama rarely — if ever — get what’s considered a full night of sleep. While for many of us, getting too little sleep can have some …
Up all night: all about insomnia
James Evan Bowen-Gaddy / Staff Writer December 12, 2016 – PittNews.com Kelly Shaw is lying in bed, staring at the ceiling and wondering why she’s so tired, but she can’t sleep. At this point she’s just a third-grader, so she asks her father what to do. He tells her he bets she can’t count to 2,000 before falling asleep, so she takes him up on it. “It worked the first couple of nights,” Shaw said. “But once you start getting to 2,000, the counting isn’t as effective.” Shaw, now a senior at Pitt studying psychology and sociology, has given up …
Fatigue and sleep apnea played a role in fatal train collision in Arkansas in 2014
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Fatigue and inadequately treated obstructive sleep apnea contributed to an Aug. 17, 2014, collision between two Union Pacific Railroad freight trains in Hoxie, Arkansas, according to a report synopsis presented by the National Transportation Safety Board at a public meeting on Dec. 6, 2016. As a result of the collision, the engineer and the conductor from the southbound train died, and the engineer and the conductor from the northbound train were seriously injured. The NTSB found that the southbound train conductor was likely asleep at the time of the accident due …
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