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Postmenopausal women sleeping less than six hours or more than nine hours every night have increased chances of suffering an ischemic stroke, shows a study carried out by Jiu-Chiuan Chen, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Postmenopause is a stage a woman has to go throug... |
21 July 2008
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Whenever we happen to have one of those hectic, incredibly busy days when time seems to be slipping by and we feel like we're not getting anything done properly, sleep is one of the first things that we readily sacrifice. An hour or two, we say to ourselves, will not make a great deal of difference in our daily ... |
9 June 2008
07:08 GMT |
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We all know by now that a diet rich in fast food meals and kebab takeaways, ice cream desserts two times a day and lots of sugary, fizzy drinks is bound to get anyone of us to pile on the pounds. However, the true mystery is that sometimes, we eat the right amounts and types of foods and we exercise regularly and sti... |
7 June 2008
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As part of our very busy, modern lifestyle, many of us find themselves in a position that imposes frequent traveling, often to very distant, overseas destinations. One of the most common and troublesome side effects of frequent flying is jet lag - a common physiological response of our bodies to the disruption of the... |
23 May 2008
06:29 GMT |
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Sloths really deserve their name: 11 % of the sloths move only 38 m (126 ft) daily, and 38 % of them cannot move at all for 24 hours. Captive two-toed sloths are active about 7 hours each day. Moreover, coming to increase the impression of laziness is the fact that, since sloths are nocturnal, they just sleep or doze... |
15 May 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Getting no sleep can be the main reason of one's zombie-like behavior, meaning, for sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers should keep a regular bedtime to avoid unwanted evening strolls," said Antonio Zadra of the Université de Montréal, lead researcher of a study published in the Annals of Neurology journal, a study that... |
12 May 2008
14:11 GMT |
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She sleeps more but she falls asleep with more difficulty. A new report released by the The Statistics Canada has found that men sleep an average of 8 hours and 7 minutes per night, compared to 8 hours and 18 minutes in the case of women. But while 25% of the men face trouble when becoming asleep, the number goes up ... |
23 April 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Early Mac Pro adopters have long complained about this sleep issue they've been experiencing with their systems. Apple's discussion forums were filled with complaints of a reboot-on-wake issue that bugged Mac Pro owners who were desperately looking for a fix. "Folk medicine" worked for a while, but the bug ... |
1 April 2008
13:15 GMT |
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Nowadays, many people associate REM with the name of a rock band. But how many of you know that REM is actually an acronym for "rapid eye movement", defining a normal stage of sleep. REM sleep in adult humans normally comprises about one quarter of total sleep, meaning 90-120 minutes. During a normal night's sle... |
31 March 2008
03:45 GMT |
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There is a flow of researches showing how the lack of sleep impacts your brain functions, from learning to memory. But the impact on people's life is much more severe than it could be guessed, plummeting productivity, safety, health, relationships and... sex. Too much work and too little sleep resulted in the f... |
26 March 2008
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Lazy people should sleep more. But how can a hard working man be an obese person? A new Japanese research shows that men who sleep less than five hours a night are exposed to turning obese and to having high levels of glucose in the blood, which is the first step towards diabetes."Lack of sleep triggers a hormone in ... |
14 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Dreams should be something intimate, something that is deeply yours, like thoughts. But not any more with the Sleep Waking, a robot that can record your brainwave activity and REM sleep. The robot not only reads your dreams, but plays them back in an interpretive dance. The Sleep Waking robot is the fruit of a collab... |
23 February 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered how whales sleep? Actually, just like us, but in short naps. This was showed by a new research led by Dr. Patrick Miller of the University of St. Andrews, who captured on video drifting behavior in sperm whales. Sperm whales in the wild turn off completely conscious activity for short 'cat... |
22 February 2008
08:42 GMT |
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You can cram all night long for the damn exam, but that's all in vain if you skip sleeping. That have been proved by a large array of researches. But this German research signaled by New Scientists comes with really astonishing information: in fact, even only 6 minutes of nap can boost your memory performances. ... |
22 February 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Any marijuana smoker will tell you that he/she is in total control and can quit easily, only that they smoke just like that, for fun. Really? A new research published in the journal "Drug and Alcohol Dependence" shows that the effects of withdrawal from marijuana smoking can be as bad as those experienced when quitti... |
12 February 2008
06:09 GMT |
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A cigarette for calming you before going to bed? Bad news: a new study reveals that smokers are 4 times more exposed than non-smokers to sleep impairment, experiencing less of the resting deep sleep, especially in the early stages of sleep. This may be connected to a nicotine withdrawal experienced each night. "It is... |
6 February 2008
06:15 GMT |
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With Windows Vista, Microsoft aimed to deliver the evolution of the Boot and Resume processes. Essentially, enhancements in this area are synonymous with the speed at which a computer would perform boot and resume tasks. With Vista, the Redmond company's bet was to make the machine behave more like alternative p... |
1 February 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Partying until the dawns, or snoring at 9:00 p.m.? This has been known to be a genetic trait, as various genes were found to impact your inner clock. But a new research shows that this inner clock is not only in your genes, but in each cell of your body!A new study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academ... |
29 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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With such a vast array of researches proving it, it is clear: you may cram, but without sleep, you will remember nothing. A new study at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health not only confirms this, but shows that the mechanism through which the brain strengthens memories during the sleep i... |
22 January 2008
05:38 GMT |
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We used to sleep on bed mattresses made of more or less natural untreated stuff. But now, they tell you that you ain't cool, man, if you do not have a visco-elastic polyurethane foam (also called memory foam) mattress. They say this is the technological revolution in your bed, the Star Trek dream in your bedroom... |
22 January 2008
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Now, we know why Spaniards take their daily siesta. They want to outsmart us all! A new research led by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman, of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research at the University of Haifa, and published in the journal "Nature Neuroscience", shows that a daytime nap of 90 minutes boosts the... |
8 January 2008
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Sleeping less than 7-8 hours per night could cut short your life because of cardiovascular issues, with an increase of 110 %, as revealed by some researches. Another recent research has showed that sleep loss in children (and not only) makes them prone to obesity. Sleep loss has also been connected to lowered immune ... |
3 January 2008
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65 % of the bird species migrate. Some species make very short displacements during winter, like the Finnish rooks which spend the winter in Northern Germany, displacing themselves with just 50 km (30 mi) daily.The longest migration made by any bird is that effectuated by the Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), which ne... |
20 December 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Lazy bone or hyperactive? If you do not sleep on average 7-8 hours per night, in the end both less or more than this could cut short your life, as found by a new research carried on at the University College London Medical School, in London, U.K., and published in the journal "SLEEP", revealing for the first time th... |
17 December 2007
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Which is the storehouse of our memories? A new research made at the University of Liege, in Belgium, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", has made a connection between sleep, brain changes and memories' quality 6 months after an event has taken place. Memories appeared to be pr... |
14 December 2007
04:58 GMT |
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The Finns call it their national drink; for Italians, making it is an art, and in most western countries, there's no breakfast without coffee. It is the second preferred beverage in the world after tea and about one third of the humans drink it: coffee. Coffee is got through the roasting of the seeds of the coff... |
27 November 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Lazy bone individuals are slimmer. It is known that people sleeping less are prone to be overweight or obese. But a new research published in the journal Genes and Development has also revealed how orexin, a hormone controlling sleep and hunger, works: it activates a protein, named HIF-1, previously known for its rol... |
15 November 2007
05:35 GMT |
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There are infrared glasses, protective ones, glasses that improve your vision and even 'over-the-top' glasses. But what about glasses that make you sleep in a nice and easy way? A team at John Carroll University, making investigations in its Lighting Innovations Institute, has come up with an affordable acc... |
14 November 2007
04:26 GMT |
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Too much ice-cream, bacon and cheese means more than a big belly and bad cholesterol. Fat rich diets seem to also impair the body's internal clock, as found by a new research published in Cell Metabolism.The fatty diet on mice induced a rapid change in their normal activity patterns: the rodents ate more during ... |
7 November 2007
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Are you going through some stressful situation in your life? In this case, that can ruin your good night's sleep even 6 months after your problems are solved...This is the result of a five-year long research led by Dr. Jussi Vahtera, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, Finland, made on a... |
2 November 2007
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1. Sleep in a comfortable bed, in quiet, dark rooms and places where you feel secure. 2. Don't snooze in the evening, even if the nigh before that you haven't slept well. Try to stay awake and go to the sleep not earlier than 8 o'clock. Maintain the same sleeping hours, as this way your body will keep ... |
1 November 2007
11:53 GMT |
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"You snooze, you lose". Is that so? All vertebrates sleep, from fish to mammals, and birds even take naps while flying! Even some invertebrates, like insects, sleep. An animal deprived of sleep dies sooner than if it lacks food, because sleep is an imperative metabolic need.The stress induced by the urban life impair... |
31 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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No sleep is really bad for your body, the effects ranging from lowered immune system (meaning vulnerability to infections) to memory and cognitive impairment and weight gain. "Almost all psychiatric disorders show some problems with sleep. But scientists previously believed the psychiatric problems triggered the slee... |
24 October 2007
05:13 GMT |
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I doubt that you have ever seen a fish with the eyes closed, but fish do sleep! (even snakes sleep too, even if their eyelids are soldered and transparent). Physiological measurements revealed that fish go through periods of drowsiness characterized by low responses to environmental factors. It is a very basic type o... |
18 October 2007
06:37 GMT |
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You may forget where you have parked the car, what you did yesterday and the birthday of your best buddy. How many times you were trying to prepare yourself for an exam and you couldn't learn anything? If you're young, they say you're in love or your mind is wandering; with the age they say you've... |
11 October 2007
03:45 GMT |
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You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it's the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prep... |
11 October 2007
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Snoring can be fun, but just in comedies. In real life, snoring can ruin marriages and relationships. Snoring can make people feel less sexy, cause tensions in a couple and make partners fear its negative effects on a long-term relationship. But the most dangerous outcome is lack of sleep and exhaustion. Alcohol and ... |
5 October 2007
14:21 GMT |
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We might think that sleepwalkers get out of bed with a knife and kill someone they're angry with. A new review based on 32 medical and legal cases shows that this naïve concept is off base. Sleepwalkers are seldom violent and do not look out for enemies to stab while in the sleep arousal state. It appears that i... |
26 September 2007
03:21 GMT |
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Bad sleep is worse than low cognitive abilities, weight gain, bad sex and car crashes. A team from the University of Warwick, and University College London, has discovered that less sleep doubles your chances of dying from cardiovascular disease. But too much sleep also doubles the risk of death. The research was mad... |
25 September 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Those who wake up early ... get fat! A new study reveals that children who don't sleep enough are more prone to grow obese when adults. It appears that less sleep impedes the body from synthesizing enough amounts of a hormone that inhibits the appetite. The Australian researchers at the University of Queensland ... |
24 September 2007
02:51 GMT |
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All vertebrates sleep, from fish to mammals. And even some invertebrates, like the insects. During sleep, the body enters in a predominantly anabolic phase, when it develops, grows, heals and builds muscle; the immune system is at its peak (that's why, when we're ill, we wake up without the cold). The lack ... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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From the employer's perpective, this is the ideal employee: the one who never sleeps. Eventually, s/he doesn't even pee or poop. Well, Thai Ngoc, a 64-year-old Vietnamese man, does pee and poop, but does not sleep. He is famous for being awake for 33 years or 11,700 nights, as informed by the Vietnamese new... |
8 August 2007
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After finding five different types of snoring, Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has come with an analysis linking the personality of each other with the sleeping position s/he's got. His analysis encompasses six common sleeping positions, connected each other to ... |
16 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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That's why many get rid of their kids for a moment: they put them to take a nap in the afternoon. But this seems not to be beneficial for the children, as some recent researches have found that daytime napping in the case of young children can be connected to poorer sleep and mental performance compared to their... |
29 June 2007
13:31 GMT |
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Bed is good for sex especially if you take a good advantage of it to have a good sleep. A new study revealed that women accusing lower sex drive during menopause are more likely to report disturbed sleep, depression symptoms and night sweats (hot flashes during sleep). This is the first time sleep disturbance has bee... |
9 June 2007
05:38 GMT |
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This is the dream of many: perfect vision without glasses. You wear lenses while sleeping and wake up with perfect vision throughout the day.The technique, called Ortho-K (Orthokeratology), involves wearing special contact lenses while you sleep to fix the curvature of the eye. "Ortho-K is similar to an orthodontist ... |
6 June 2007
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Researchers at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis have made for the first time a review and formal classification of all documented sleep-related disorders linked with abnormal sexual behaviors and experiences, called "sleepsex" or "sexsomnia"."It seems that more and more reports are surfaci... |
1 June 2007
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Could our dreams be useful in getting new ideas?Researchers at Harvard Medical School believe that sleeping is the way the brain processes the amount of daily information… so the idea above makes sense. It is known that sleep strengthens learning and memory. A previous research at Harvard led by Matthew Walker discov... |
15 May 2007
07:13 GMT |
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All it would take to get a good night's sleep would be to flip the switch of a device, and let magnetic waves guide us to Dreamland. Most mammals, birds, fish, as well as invertebrates such as the fruitfly Drosophila sleep. The state is characterized by a reduction in voluntary body movement, temporary blindne... |
2 May 2007
13:01 GMT |
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Here's something that may come to help those who often use to count thousands of sheep before falling asleep. The Dreamate device sends you to land of the dreams (or nightmares) by sending a gentle wave to your wrist. The “good karma” wave touches the so-called “sleeping golden triangle”... |
1 May 2007
04:19 GMT |
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