7 scientific tricks for falling asleep
Kevin Loria | Dec. 24, 2016, 1:00 PM If you have a few days off over the holidays, there’s one thing you can do to take care of yourself that will significantly change your life for the better — try to fix your sleeping schedule. Of course, sometimes that’s easier said than done. In our busy, wired, non-stop culture, 40% of people sleep less than the recommended seven to nine hours a night. Indeed, between a third and half of all adults in the US and around the world suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives. In up …
Healthier Me: Adding Sleep to Your New Year’s Resolutions
By Danielle Barber | Posted: Thu 6:51 AM, Jan 05, 2017 Diet and exercise are often at the top of the list for New Year’s resolutions, but experts are encouraging people to add sleep to their list this year. Valley News Team’s, Danielle Barber, explains how to start getting more sleep and how it can improve your overall health. “Sleep is one of those things that can affect every system in your body,” said Sanford Sleep Medicine Specialist, Mary Saunders. “So, when you want to feel rested, you want to be healthy to fight off disease, have good mental health, …
Schumer: Sleep Apnea Testing Programs for Railroads Must Finally and Immediately Be Implemented
Published on January 9, 2017 | SleepReviewMag.com Following the recent Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) derailment at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn that injured more than 100 people, US Senator Charles E. Schumer demanded a federal-led comprehensive safety review and report on passenger railroad systems nationwide. And the Senator wants that report made public. “Enough with the one-off approach to passenger rail safety,” says Sen Charles Schumer in a release. “For too long, what has been happening is this: a derailment occurs and then that one individual system promises a change, but then nothing is done. Railroads aren’t heeding lessons from …
Workplaces Are Tracking Their Employees’ Sleep
Employers aren’t just tracking your steps anymore, but your zzz’s. posted on Jan. 6, 2017, at 11:01 a.m. | Stephanie M. Lee | BuzzFeed News Reporter Dan Roberts has been tired for what feels like his whole life. Between depression and anxiety, a packed work schedule, irregular eating habits, and a mind that’s prone to racing when it should be drifting off, the 36-year-old is lucky to get more than four hours of shut-eye virtually every weeknight. So during the day, “every minute feels like an hour,” Roberts told BuzzFeed News. “You feel really sluggish and down, maybe not quite …
Largest Consumer Sleep Study Just Released at CES 2017
SleepScore Labs Reports Provocative New Insights from 1.5 Million Nights of Sleep Highlights: 79% of people get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep America’s SleepScore is 77 (out of 100) More than 30% have a SleepScore of 55 or less Women sleep longer – men average 5 hours, 45 minutes, while women average 6 hours, 9 minutes On average, Americans go to bed at 10:21 p.m. and wake up at 7:41 a.m. – people in the Pacific time zone go to bed latest, and people in the Eastern time zone get up earliest 30 minutes of exercise correlates …
Struggling to get a good night’s sleep? Ditch those alarm apps for a start
Sleep hygiene is a priority for our tech-obsessed society in 2017. Dec 29th 2016, 9:45 PM | TheJournal.ie AT THE BEST of times, a good night’s sleep can feel like the most elusive thing ever. Getting enough sleep plays a vital role in ensuring a healthy lifestyle yet with busier lives, more distractions and the many stresses of day-to-day life, getting enough sleep can feel like an impossible task. The good news is if you’re not suffering from a condition, it’s more than possible to get a regular sleep pattern again. The bad news is it will require you to …
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 …
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 …
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 …