Dr. Kevin Most: CES Las Vegas showcased new products to make us healthier
POSTED 9:15 AM, JANUARY 15, 2018, BY MARY SANDBERG BOYLE, UPDATED AT 09:01AM, JANUARY 15, 2018| WGNRadio.com Last week was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This is the show where companies tout their new inventions as well as their advancements in current products. It does go beyond the Smart Home, self-driving cars, bigger and better TV’s, gaming Virtual reality, augmented reality……. The list goes on as you can imagine. Health care has taken a step up this year with 65,000 square feet of CES space set for medical devices along with more space for wellness companies touting their programs. Some …
Does Your Child Snore? 5 Signs of Trouble
Common questions answered for parents While nearly half of all adults snore occasionally, snoring is not quite so common in children. So if your kids snores, is that cause for concern? “On average, just one in 10 kids snore,” says pediatric otolaryngologist Brandon Hopkins, MD. “But that doesn’t necessarily indicate a problem.” Here, he answers common questions parents ask about children’s snoring: Q: What might cause a child to snore? A: The most typical cause of snoring in children has to do with excess, or obstructive, tissue in the throat. “In children, large tonsils and adenoids are often a source of bulky tissue in …
Study reveals what sleep talkers have to say
January 12, 2018 by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress A team of researchers with members from several institutions in France has conducted a study regarding sleep talking and has found that most sleep talking is not only negative in nature, but involves a large amount of swearing. In their paper published in the journal Sleep, the group describes their study, which involved watching and recording hundreds of volunteers as they slept. Most people talk in their sleep at some point, but as the researchers with this new effort note, not much research has been done to find out what sleeping people have …
Parents still engaging in risky infant sleep practices, CDC says
01/11/2018 | ConsumerAffairs | Family & parenting By Sarah D. Young Sarah D. Young has been a columnist for a blog aimed at Millennials and has also worked in early childhood education and has been a reading tutor to at-risk youth. Infant deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) have reached an annual average of about 3,500 a year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. Although that number represents an overall decrease in the number of sleep-related infant deaths since the 1990s, the CDC says the rate of SIDS deaths is no longer declining. The agency says its new analysis …
Sugar cravings worsened by lack of sleep
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD,January 11, 2018 | News-Medical.net A new study has found that sugar cravings are worsened by lack of sleep and following and maintaining a good diet to maintain healthy weight would necessitate a good night’s rest. The study titled “Sleep extension is a feasible lifestyle intervention in free-living adults who are habitually short sleepers: a potential strategy for decreasing intake of free sugars? A randomised controlled pilot study”, was published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published this week (10th January 2018). The researchers from King’s College, London, included a mere 42 healthy adults …
Would You Pay $20,000 for a Bed That Could Help You Stop Snoring?
By CHRIS MORRIS January 12, 2018 No matter how much you might love your spouse, it’s hard to hang onto that affection when their snoring jolts you awake in the middle of the night. That buzzsaw sound cuts through us like nails on a chalkboard, sometimes triggering irrational rage—even though we know it’s not being done deliberately. But a new bed from an Italian manufacturer aims to restore peace in the bedroom. Magniflex, an Italian mattress manufacturer, has recently started selling the Magni Smartech in the U.S., a $20,000 smart bed that, in addition to tracking things like heartbeat and sleep …
When Snoring Creates Actual Problems in Marriage, and What to Do About It
Is sleeping in separate bedrooms a good solution? HILARY THOMPSON | JAN 10, 2018 | VerilyMag.com When you’re young and in love, planning on building a life together, a little thing like snoring may not be on the top of your list of things to discuss before the wedding day. But the National Sleep Foundation survey found that nearly 25 percent of couples sleep separately as a result of sleep issues. For many of us searching for lasting love and intimacy, that doesn’t sound like a very romantic prospect. But does snoring really affect marital happiness? The answer is, it can—but it doesn’t have …
Man Declared Dead Starts Snoring on Autopsy Table
Deborah Hastings, Deborah HastingsPublished: January 10, 2018, 11:18 pm Updated: January 10, 2018, 11:18 pm | NBC4I.com Dead men don’t snore. Three different doctors had declared a 29-year-old prison inmate dead. All three were wrong. Gonzalo Montoya Jimenez was found unresponsive on the floor of his cell in northern Spain. Guards assumed he was dead and he was taken to the medical examiner’s for an autopsy, according to local reports. After the trio of physicians pronounced him dead, Jimenez’s body was marked for an autopsy. He was on the table, inside a body bag, for about four hours when the coroner’s staff was …
Frequent Business Travelers Report More Trouble Sleeping Than Those Who Stay Home
Published on January 9, 2018 | SleepReviewMag.com People who travel for business 2 weeks or more a month report more symptoms of anxiety and depression and are more likely to smoke, be sedentary, and report trouble sleeping than those who travel 1 to 6 nights a month. This is according to a latest study conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York. Among those who consume alcohol, extensive business travel is associated with symptoms of alcohol dependence. Poor behavioral and mental health outcomes significantly increased as the number of nights away from home …
Sleep Allows Younger People to Hit ‘Save Button’ on Memories
Researchers say as we get older, we lose those cells in the brain that help us retain memories as we sleep. Can anything be done about the problem? “To die, to sleep — to sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come.” That’s Hamlet, from the famous “to be or not to be” soliloquy. Shakespeare’s prince is agonizing over his fear that even death will not be enough to end the torment of his dreams. And now we have a new factor to disturb our sleep. A recent study concluded that …
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