Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sleep. Show all posts
Do this test tonight when you go to bed. Put a plate on the floor next to your bed. Lie down with one hand hanging over the bed holding a spoon above the plate. When you fall asleep, the spoon will fall on the plate and should wake you up. If you don't wake up until the next day, it probably means you are 'sleep deprived'.
We live in a world of tired, sleep deprived people. We all know the importance of having a healthy diet and doing exercise, but we don't worry enough about sleeping the hours we need. We might live longer and happier lives if we took our beds as seriously as our running shoes.

Sleepy people - the dangers of sleep deprivation

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It's no secret that many college students do not sleep enough. Academic studies, social life, part-time or full-time jobs, and relationships are often more important than sleep. Students experience even more sleep deprivation as midterm and final exams approach.

Sleep is serious business

Lack of sleep can cause these harmful side effects:
  • daytime drowsiness
  • inability to cope with stress
  • weight gain
  • poor health
  • low energy
Most important for students, sleep deprivation makes studying and learning more difficult. It also hurts the body's ability to stay healthy.


The importance of sleep to academic success

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The amount of sleep each person needs depends on many factors, including age. Infants generally require about 16 hours a day. For most adults, seven to eight hours a night appears to be the ideal amount of sleep, although a few people may need a little as five hours’ sleep or as much as ten hours’ sleep each day.
Getting too little sleep creates a sleep debt, and eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.


A large member of people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, such as insomnia, and deep sleep stages in many elderly people often become very short or stop completely. Microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise awake person, are another mark of sleep deprivation. In many cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing microsleeps. The widespread practice of burning the candle at both ends in western industrialised societies has created so much sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is now almost the norm.

How much sleep do we need?

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We all know that exercise is good for health. So on January 1st we often start the New Year with a good resolution - to go to the gym three times a week. But what happens? The first week we go three times, the second week we go twice, and the third we stop going. The same thing happens with diets. After Christmas we start a new healthy eating plan. We are very enthusiastic at first - but after two or three weeks, we stop.

Don't go to the gym in the winter!

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Do you ... ? Very often Sometimes Hardly ever
1. exercise regularly
2. go to bed late
3. go to bed early
4. go to bed after eating
5. read before going to sleep
6. wake up in the middle of the night
7. sleep in a cool room
8. need an alarm clock to wake up
9. sleep on a hard bed
10. get up late
11. get up early
12. sleep for less than eight hours


Do you have healthy sleep habits

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What do you know about sleep and dreams? Check True or False.
True False
1. Babies dream less than adults
2. Some people don't dream at all
3. Women sleep more than men
4. It's dangerous to wake up a sleepwalker
5. A sound sleeper rarely moves during the night
6. The best cure for insomnia is to take short naps during the day
7. You can play tapes and learn a foreign language while you sleep


What is your Sleep IQ

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