Sleep Disorders
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Nap/Tuck – Want to Lose Weight? Sleep it Off!
Losing weight is as easy as 1, 2, Zzzz. As summer 2012 is rapidly fleeting, it’s time to look towards fall. For some that means a new school year or maybe a new job. Whatever it means for you, you’re going to want to look good doing it. What a lot of people don’t know is that losing weight starts with a good night’s sleep. In a study quoted by WebMD.com, researchers found that people...
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Does Too Much Turkey Actually Make You Tired?
Every Thanksgiving, the rumor goes around that eating too much turkey will make you tired. While there is tryptophan in turkey, it seems that the...
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Drowsy Driving Prevention Awareness Week
Oh, snap! We had the following important article about Drowsy Driving Prevention Awareness Week pre-written and ready to post two weeks ago, but got so...
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Jet Lag Disorder: Overcoming Travel-Related Sleep Disturbances
Whether traveling for the holidays, business, or simply a week-long getaway, jet lag can happen to the best of us when traveling across time zones....
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Sleep Paralysis: What it is and Why it Happens
Sleep paralysis sounds like something only seen in a horror flick. You awake from a sound sleep, only to feel like you can’t move. You...
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The Link Between Insomnia and GERD
A recent study has uncovered a significant relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and sleep disturbances. According to the study, the relationship may be bidirectional...
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Sleep Addiction: How it Happens and its Effects
Sleep is one of the things in life that most people feel they can never have too much of. Part of the reason you feel...
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How Does Alcohol Affect Sleep?
Excessive alcohol use can wreak havoc on your sleeping patterns for a number of reasons. While some people may believe that alcohol aids in being...
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What is a Sleep Lab and What to Expect in a Sleep Study
For people who have trouble sleeping, snore loudly, are overly tired, or have chronic fatigue, often the first step to a diagnosis is an overnight...
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Hypersomnia - Causes and Treatments
Excessive sleepiness, particularly excessive daytime sleepiness, is the hallmark sign of hypersomnia. Hypersomnia can also be characterized by prolonged sleep at night. Up to...
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Is ADHD a Sleeping Disorder in Disguise?
A recent editorial published in the New York Times from Vatsal G. Thakkar, professor of psychiatry at N.Y.U. School of Medicine, discusses his beliefs that...
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Preventing Acid Reflux During Sleep
It happens to the best of us. You have a late night snack, or even just a rich dinner and you end up paying...
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Best Mattress for Insomnia: Getting the Sleep You Need
Insomnia can be a real dream killer, and it’s a problem that plagues far more people than you realize. According to the National Institute of...
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Bright Light Therapy: Lighten You Mood and Feel Better
Bright light therapy, also known as phototherapy, is a helpful way to treat the winter blues, otherwise known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), as well...
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Fibromyalgia and Sleep: Controlling Your Illness to Get Better Sleep
An estimated 10 million people suffer from fibromyalgia here in the U.S., and up to six percent of the population worldwide have this condition, reports...
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How Your Child with ADHD Can Finally Sleep Better
It seems that in this day and age, there are more and more difficulties plaguing our children. Between the rise in childhood obesity and the...
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How To Get Your Sleep While Working The Night Shift
Shift work is a reality of our modern economy. Services don’t stop running when the sun goes down. Without night workers—nurses and doctors, toll booth...
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Sleep Diary: How it can Enhance Your Sleep Quality
Everyone needs a good night’s sleep each and every night. Unfortunately, for a large segment of the population that is a rare commodity. While there...
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How to Kick the Kids Out of Your Bed…Gently
So your kids are finally past the stage of diapers and drooling and it seems that your life might finally settle down for just enough...
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Stopping Sleepwalkers in Their Tracks…
There are so many sleep ailments out there, that some tend to get overlooked. One such ailment that is often put into a comical category...
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Sleepless in Seattle: How to Sleep When You’re Lovesick
While there are all manners of cartoons and feature films (like the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan hit Sleepless in Seattle) dedicated to the chaos...
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Cures for Insomnia: Hit it From All Angles
Medical Disclaimer: No claims are made for cures of any type within the following blog post. Check with your physician before following any regimen for...
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Snoring Solutions: Relief from Disturbed Sleep
Medical Disclaimer: No claims are made for cures of any type within the following blog post. Check with your physician before following any regimen for...
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How to Stay Asleep so You can Function at Your Best During the Day
Anyone who has suffered from insomnia, particularly how to stay asleep at night, has spent a lot of time wondering about this very thing. Sleep...
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Trick or Treat: Why Halloween Candy and Sleep Don’t Mix
Halloween is a mere twenty days away and while for the kids across the world, this is seen as a great thing, for many parents,...
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Snoring: Relationships, Science, and Treatments
My husband snores. It isn’t a cute little snuffle here and there or an occasional bad night. He snores like a buzz saw and it’s...
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Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Sleep in Overdrive
For one Pittsburgh surburbia teen, Sleeping Beauty isn’t just Walt Disney movie or fairy tale book. For Nicole Delien, Kleine-Levin Syndrome (KLS), sometimes referred to...
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Sleeping with Socks On
One of the most important things you need in order to properly function and have good physical and mental health, is an adequate amount of...
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Skipping Sleep to Cram Will Lower Your Grade
As the end of the fall semester looms ever larger, students across the country are hunkering down for the dreaded all-nighters: the non-stop cramming sessions...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Fighting it with Sleep
I live in New York and right now, the days are abysmally short. It starts getting dark around 4 PM, and that’s about when I...
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Sleep Talking: What Causes it and Whether it can be Prevented
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, somniloquy, also known as sleep talking is a condition that impacts half of all young children and...
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Too Tired to Sleep: Is it a Thing?
Sleep, aside from food and water, is one of the most important things the body needs in order to repair itself, recover from injuries, and...
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Baby Talk: New Ways to Sleep When You’re a New Parent
One of the most amazing moments in life is the joy of having a new baby. From the tiny clothes to the precious nursery, it...
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Think Sleep Deprivation is No Big Deal? Think Again
It’s another morning you wake up after far too few hours of sleep. While you might think you can catch up on this lack of...
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A Good Night’s Sleep can Help Prevent the Common Cold
We’ve officially said goodbye to summer and are in the thick of the autumn season. With the changing of the leaves, comes unfortunately, the fall...