Choosing the perfect bedtime snack can make or break your sleep. Despite the common belief that eating at night can lead to weight gain, enjoying bedtime snack can be beneficial to your snooze without impacting your waistline. If you’re looking to fall asleep faster with deeper shut-eye to look forward to every night, give these […]
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Skipping Sleep For Work Means More Sick Days That Cost
It isn’t uncommon for an employee to get a pat on the back from their employer because they cut back on sleep and put in more hours at work. However, both employees and employers may want to reconsider that sacrifice as new study has found a link between sleep and work absences. Published last year […]
What Are Healthy People Doing Before Bed?
Do you know someone who always seems to have endless amounts of energy and be in a great mood? Chances are they are living a healthy life that ties into also helping them sleep better. So what’s their secret? The Huffington Post has revealed what healthy people do before climbing into the bed: They Snack […]
An Afternoon Nap is Perfect for Better Heart Health
Are you looking forward to your daily afternoon nap brightening your day? New research tells us that enjoying an afternoon nap may not only boost your energy, but it’s linked to reduced blood pressure (BP) levels and fewer hypertension-related medications. Presented at ESC Congress in Greece by cardiologist Dr. Manolis Kallistratos, the prospective study included data […]
Teens are Still Suffering from Early School Times
While back-to-school season just started, many students may feel the effects of sleep loss throughout the entire school year. Your teenagers are not exaggerating about their middle and high schools starting too early, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly agrees with their latest findings. The U.S. News & World Report tells us that […]
Improve Your Golf Game By Treating Your Sleep Apnea
Have an upcoming golf game coming up, and need to knock out the competition? According to a new study, men can improve their golf performance by getting their obstructive sleep apnea treated with continuous airway pressure (CPAP). Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder in which a person stops breathing for pauses at a night […]
New Research Reveals How Your Brain Dreams
What do you think happens while you dream? According to new published research in the journal Nature Communications, the brain activity that occurs when we dream is surprisingly similar to when we are awake and taking in visual images, or as PsyPost puts it, our brains may be seeing dreams. Researchers from Tel Aviv University […]
7 Surprising Mental Attitudes Keeping You from Sleep
Sleep is important as we all know, but somehow it continues to be the very least of our concerns. As the third pillar of health along with diet and exercise, sleep is seen as being the most dispensable. Negative attitudes toward sleep can bring you closer to insomnia and increase your health risks without you […]
How a Night of Poor Sleep Can Affect Your Relationship
After a horrible night of sleep, we usually aren’t our best selves the next day. The Center for Disease Control estimates that 50-70 million Americans aren’t getting sufficient sleep every night, with other studies showing that two-thirds of Americans share a bed with a partner. So how does this epidemic of poor sleep affect of […]
Artificial Light May Hurt Sleep of Young Teens
Were your teenagers excited to head back to school, or did they beg you for more sleep this year? The importance of sleep for children and teenagers cannot be stressed enough, as their growing bodies and learning minds need the support of quality snooze to help maximize their health and education. So what could be […]
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