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Sleep and Aging: Tips for Assuring Sleep Quality
Just as our hair will likely turn grey and wrinkles will probably adorn our faces, as we age many of us can expect to encounter sleep changes. These sleep and aging changes can result in waking up throughout the night, becoming sleepy earlier, and awakening earlier than we used to. Sleep and Aging Statistics As many as 50 percent of seniors experience some sort of sleep disturbance as they embark on their golden years. And...
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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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Too Excited to Sleep: Winding Down
When was the last time you were too excited to sleep? Was it over an important job interview? How about an upcoming vacation? This priceless...
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Eating Before Bed: What to Eat and What not To
Who doesn’t love a great midnight snack? The problem is, those midnight snacks might not be showing your body the love it really needs to...
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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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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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Sleep Anxiety and How to Overcome It
The average person feels a little jagged around the edges as a result of a sleepless night or even a night when the quality of...
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Winter Sleep (SAD): Symptoms and Causes of Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also referred to as the “winter blues” in its milder form, impacts roughly half a million individuals each winter, according to...
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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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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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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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Computers and Televisions in Bedrooms Ruining Kids’ Health?
Kids these days! I never thought I’d say those words, but here I am worried about how much time kids spend on the computer and...
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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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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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Do You Care About Your Relationship? Try Sleeping
Romantic relationships are wonderful—without my husband, I’d be adrift, lonely, and decidedly unhappy—but that doesn’t mean marriage isn’t hard. I’m very proud of my relationship...
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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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Eliminate the Drink… and Other Sleep Inhibitors
People who sleep soundly often take the ubiquitous activity for granted. They are unfamiliar with the endless wakeful nights of the tormented insomniac. But most...
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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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Sleeping While Stressed: Sleep Habits of Military Families
With Veteran’s Day passing yesterday, it’s interesting and helpful to discuss the difficulties servicemen and their families can have in completing everyday tasks that most...
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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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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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This Halloween, Get Rid of the Monsters Under the Bed
This Halloween, after your kids come down from their sugar high, they’re bound to here plenty of ghost stories on Halloween night. When they finally...
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Busting the Myth: Sleeping with Wet Hair
For years and years, my mother and grandmother have been telling me, “make sure you dry your hair before you go to sleep, you’ll catch...
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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...
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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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Sleeping Habits of U.S. Presidents
With the presidential elections right around the corner, it seems that our lives are centered around the candidates’. Have you ever thought that you and...
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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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Which Profession Is Sleep Deprived And Which Is Well Rested?
We all know that one of the leading causes of sleep deprivation is from stress at work. But have you ever wondered what the most...
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PTSD & Sleep: Best Natural Techniques to Help Sleep at Night
In today’s world, we all know someone who’s struggling with Post-traumatic stress disorder. Be it a war veteran or someone who’s been involved in a...
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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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How to Sleep Well in a Foreign Country
You’re going abroad on maybe a vacation or business, either way there’s a lot to get used to. Maybe you have to learn an entirely...
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How to Sleep After Seasickness
You’ve just signed up for an afternoon on a cruise and while it sounded like a good idea at the time, the seasickness you got...
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The Most Common Sleep Disorders
While we’ve all seen too many TV specials on strange sleep disorders that seem completely and totally outrageous, have you ever wondered what the most...
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How to Get Your Best Night of Sleep When You’re Stressed
We’ve all been there before: you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow and you’ve been up most of the night stressing about it....
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Sleeping with a New Ear Piercing: Dealing with the Pain
While a new piercing can be fun and exciting, it can be especially uncomfortable to sleep on. Read on for some do’s and don’ts...