Archive for January, 2008
If you are a woman and work shifts your chances of enforced early retirement are greater than a woman who is not involved in shift-work or a man who works shifts, says an article in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
The findings come from the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study, which started in 1990, and information from the national welfare register - it involved 8,000 male and female employees.
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The latest research conducted on shift work and its side effects has proved that women who are doing shift work are more likely to be forced to retire early due to several complications in their health.
This research was conducted on both men and women; they considered both of them equally and observed them totally until they are 60 years old.
It has found that women suffer a lot with several heath problems due to shift work when compared to men. Men will have enough resistance and power when compared to women. So, they will have somewhat less health problems in shift work when compared to women.
During the holiday season, it’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of hanging up decorations, shopping, wrapping presents, cooking and hosting parties.
Because of the limited time to complete all of these activities, many people feel that they can buy themselves more time by spending less time in bed.
To make this an enjoyable season, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) encourages people to not allow all that hustle and bustle to put a damper on a good night’s sleep.
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Recent studies have proved that people cannot be able to enjoy without proper rest i.e. sleep. Generally most of the people think that holiday time is meant for enjoying only, so they tend to reduce their sleep time in their enjoyment mood.
It is not a good practice because several disorders will affect your mind and body if required sleep or rest time is not given to them.
People who have lack of sleep look drowsy and tired, so they can’t pay much attention on the things of enjoyment which has to be done by them during holidays where as if you have enough sleep or rest, the mind and body of yours will be active and you can do more enjoyment in holidays with your fresh or active mind.
Scientists from the Medical Research Council’s Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit (ANU) at the University of Oxford have discovered evidence that sleep is important for the stabilization of memory.
In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, Dr Jozsef Csicsvari and colleagues describe how memory traces of the latest waking experiences could be reactivated during sleep, helping the formation of long-lasting memories.
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The latest research on the connection between the sleep and memory has proved that good night’s sleep can improve your long-term memory where as the disturbed or restless night sleep makes you to forget the things within short period of time.
Your brain will be relaxed with the restful and happy sleep at night times. With proper relaxation, the power of brain will improve and the memory levels also increases with it.
With restless and disturbed sleep, your brain will not attain the needed rest required for it, so it will be disturbed. With this disturbed mind, you cannot be able to remember the things for long period of time and mostly you will be confused on various activities while performing them.
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This cushion is filled with super slick fill which contours and self molds to your every move.
This pillow is therapeutically designed in this shape in order make your neck and head stay in proper position while sleeping.
A unique four section design is used in this pillow to ensure your head stay in position. Each section of this pillow is precisely filled and measured correctly to relieve stress, tension and pressure.
Bad dreams in pre-schoolers are less prevalent than thought. However, when they do exist, nightmares are trait-like in nature and associated with personality characteristics measured as early as five months, according to a study published in the January 1 issue of the journal SLEEP.
The study, led by Valerie Simard, under the direction of Tore Nielsen, PhD, of the University of Montreal, sampled 987 children in the Province of Quebec, who were assessed by their parents at the 29-month, 41-month, 50-month, five-year and six-year mark.
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Nightmares are the disturbances or bad dreams which occur in the sleep during night times.
There is no particular age limit to get nightmares. This problem can be seen in small children as well as in older people. Usually this problem of nightmares will be mostly seen in the children who are aged above 6.
Out of 100%, 45% of the children who are aged above six will be suffering with this problem of nightmares in their sleep time. There are no gender feelings for nightmares; these can be seen both in boys and girls.
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According to the recent studies, it has been proved that the sleep duration or sleeping time will be less or shorter in the people on weekdays, in summer and on weekends.
Many disturbances which are created at this time will not encourage you to attain good sleep. So, the sleep duration will be less in these situations.
Sleep duration will also be less in children who don’t have younger siblings. According to the recent studies, the reason for it is found out i.e. the children who don’t have younger siblings will be suffering with the problem of loneliness or insecurity.
So they don’t attain proper sleep with loneliness or insecurity feeling. Even though they go to sleep, they will awake easily for the simple things like small sounds and small disturbances.
In an examination of potential relationships between objective sleep measures, nocturnal sex hormone levels, and the nocturnal course of body temperature of older postmenopausal women, altered levels of both sex hormones and gonadotropins may contribute to sleep disturbance in older postmenopausal women and confirm the results of previous studies indicating that higher body temperature is associated with poorer sleep quality.
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Sleep disorders are seen more in the postmenopausal women due to their altered sex hormone levels, gonadotropin and higher body temperatures. Improper sleep or disturbed sleep itself is responsible for the increase of body temperature in postmenopausal women.
Research has been conducted on 10 women who are aged between 57 to 71 years and who have at least five years of post menopause.
It has been proved that these women have several sleep disorders and their body temperatures are more when compared to the other women who don’t have the problem of post menopause.
The research has also found that lower estradiol (E2) and higher luteinizing hormone (LH) are responsible for the poor sleep in postmenopausal women because these two will increase the body temperature and make them feel inconvenient while sleeping.
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Recent studies have proved that good night sleep cannot be attained by you if you drink caffeine and high energy drinks at the morning time for more number of times.
Generally people use to consume these drinks a lot in their holidays season and weekends because the energy levels are boosted while performing several activities like shopping, attending numerous parties, etc.
Yes, it is true that energy levels of a person get boosted by consuming caffeine, or any other high energy drinks in the morning. The reason behind this is that these drinks will have some energy boosters in them, which will boost the energy levels.
Caffeine is one type of drink, which is naturally produced from the seeds and leaves of many plants. Even though it boosts the energy levels of the person, it will affect the central nervous system.
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