Archive | Sleep Importance

For many people, it isn’t uncommon to make do with getting 6 hours of sleep a night during the week. The lack of sleep can lead to plenty of significant health risks such as, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Catching up on sleep can be beneficial to our health. New research shows that getting […]

Another possible reason that sleep has been associated with weight gain and obesity has been revealed in a new study. Sleep deprived people often opt for bigger portion sizes. The study included 16 men of normal weight, who were asked to pick how much food they wanted from a buffet style presentation of meals and snacks. The first time […]

According to recent study, there is a strong link between worsened PTSD symptoms and poor sleep after suffering a heart attack. Poor sleep factors include: bad overall sleep, sleeping pill use, sleep disturbances and short sleep duration. PTSD is often caused by a traumatic event as mostly affects war veteran or people who have survived an attack. It is […]

While we usually hear about the ramifications from sleeping too little, sleeping for too many hours a night can raise the chance of colorectal cancer for the overweight or those who snore. A study at Harvard Medical School has shown that for these people, sleeping for 9 or more hours can lead to a 1.4 […]

A new study shows that pregnant women in Ghana were more likely to have stillbirths if they slept on their backs. Compared to low income countries, high income countries (a country where the gross national income per capita is $12,196 or higher) are substantially less likely to have high stillbirth rates. In less developed countries, […]

A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine confirms that insomnia and nightmares are related to suicidal thoughts. Researchers have thought that to be the case for some time, but they had not yet proved an absolute link between the disorders. The research included fifty participants between the ages of 20 and […]

According to a new study from the University of Southern Denmark, there is a correlation between poor sleep quality and a lower relative sperm count. The participants in the study were almost a thousand young men between their late teens and early twenties. The research surrounding the study included a questionnaire that asked participants how […]

Fibromyalgia is a pain disorder characterized by widespread pain throughout the body and tender points in the soft tissues. More than 90% of affected people are women, and furthermore, they almost always report that they have had trouble sleeping. According to a study conducted in Norway, if a woman experienced insomnia and other sleep issues, […]

The American Lung Association estimates as many as 12 million people in the U.S have sleep apnea. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most common treatment for the sleep disorder, people with sleep apnea struggle with disrupted sleep and daytime sleepiness.  A new study is able is link CPAP treatment with greater work productivity. […]