Bedtime restriction in an environment that promotes overeating and inactivity is accompanied by increased intake of calories from snacks.
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Sleep Hygiene
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Mar
8
2008
Sleepy time in the U.S.A.
In moving the clocks ahead one hour, we are effectively losing an hour of sleep. Without proper preparation for the time change, people end up sleepy. In honor of sleepy people, as well as a tribute to our men and women in uniform, here’s a great video.
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Mar
3
2008
7 Days of Sleep and Alertness
Learn about sleep’s connection with mood, health, alertness, and performance in the workplace as well as sleep problems such as insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy, and excessive daytime sleepiness.
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Mar
1
2008
On your mark, get set … Sleep!
Most people in society look at those who try to get proper, healthy sleep, and give a bit of sage advice, telling those people to stay busy, get active, do just one more thing. Don’t listen to those people. They’ve got things all wrong.
At this time of the year, the week leading up to Daytime Saving Time, that annual Spring ritual of moving clocks ahead one hour, Awake In America is going to go against the grain and suggest — and help you — get more sleep, and hopefully, at the same time, better sleep.
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In the video below, from a church service honoring the late Martin Luther King, Jr., in Harlem, New York, on January 21, 2008, former President Bill Clinton is seen, seated behind the speaker, dozing off several times.
Since former President Clinton has a history of heart ailments, perhaps it’s time he undergo a sleep study to check for any possible sleep disorders. Then again, with the hectic schedule he’s been maintaining on the presidential campaign trail for his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), he is likely sleep deprived.
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Sep
7
2007
Mortality-linked sleep durations more likely to be found in minorities, research findings show
African-Americans and other racial minorities have sleep durations associated with increased mortality. This is consistent with the belief that unhealthy sleep patterns among minorities, long sleep or short sleep, may contribute to health differentials.
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Feb
5
2006
Sleep hygiene is essential to sleeping well
Sleep disruption is common, especially during times when you may feel emotionally overwhelmed. Anxiety, relentless replaying of the day’s events, and heightened emotions may significantly interfere with your sleep. Lack of sleep robs you of needed rest, making management of your illness more difficult.
Some people, for a variety of reasons, still have sleep disturbances related to the events of September 11, 2001, which saw the destruction of the World Trade Centers and partial destruction of the Pentagon. Other people, especially family members and friends of deployed American military personnel, don’t always sleep well. There are always those people who are stressed about things, such as stress at work, lack of a job, loss of a job, family issues, or financial issues.
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Feb
23
2005
How to improve your sleep and daytime alertness
Humans spend about a third of our lives sleeping. Over the course of an average 70–year lifespan, that equates to about 205,000 hours.Sleep is vital in everyone’s life.
Why is it so important? Our health, happiness, and ability to succeed in life are strongly dependent on how well we meet the body’s need for rest and quality sleep. Sleep is a naturally occurring period in every 24-hour period of a human’s life, in fact. It’s during the sleep phase of our daily cycle that the body repairs itself, tests its systems, consolidates memory, purges itself of waste, and stockpiles energy for the day ahead.
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