Tag: sleep

  • Get a good night’s sleep — you need it

    By Mitra Malek | May 31, 2016 Slogging through the workday is the mildest consequence of not sleeping enough. Sure, your creativity goes down, you tend to make mistakes, and it takes twice as long to get things done. But not getting enough sleep is also bad for your health, especially over time.   First off, you’re more…

  • Is Hitting the Snooze Button Bad for You?

    Published on Oct 03, 2017 by Alex Mitchell   Do you have an “as needed” relationship with your Snooze Button? Is it one of those relationships that every now and then, you call in a favor and it lets you get in a few extra minutes on Monday morning when you were up too late watching Game of…

  • Good Nutrition for Better Sleep

    Source: Good nutrition for better sleep Good nutrition for better sleep ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 BY LIANNE MARISSAIN HEALTH, SLEEP, UNCATEGORIZED One thing I’m really interested in is nutrition and how foods impact on aspects of our health beyond the purely physical. I’ve been dealing with insomnia on and off for a few years now, and one thing that I’ve found that…

  • Your Health Matters: 7 Tips to Better Sleep

     An excerpt from: 7 Treatment Strategies for Insomnia By Therese Borchard According to the National Center for Sleep Disorders Research, approximately 30 to 40 percent of adults report some symptoms of insomnia within a given year, and 10 to 15 percent report chronic insomnia. According to a 2015 study published in Psychology Research and Behavior Management, half of…

  • Your Health Matters: Here’s How Sleep Loss Can Affect Alzheimer’s

    Story by MAGGIE FOX NBCNews   A single night of interrupted sleep causes an increase in brain proteins believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease, researchers reported Monday. They believe their research shows that sleep helps the body clear away the compounds, called amyloid and tau, and that interrupting sleep may allow too much of them to build…