Over the last decade or so, there has been an increasing awareness of the health and economic consequences caused by the sleep deprivation and poor sleep…
Have any of you very sleepy and do not know why? You came to the right place. A Third of Life by Paul Martin, Improving Sleep by Lawrence Epstein, and Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind by William C. Dement & Christopher Vaughan introduces the concept of sleep. Many people regard sleeping just waking up in the morning and going back to sleep at night, and feeling really tired around the afternoon, but sleep is more complicated than that. Sleep is what is going around your body physically and what is happening to your body while a person is sleeping.…
Sleep deprivation is a major problem, especially during this era. This article warns people of what they are doing to their bodies by sleeping for six hours or less.…
Sleep can effect us in many way that we may not even notice. Although you don’t think sleep is that important, it really is. It provides many different things throughout the day to help people function better. As said in “How Much Sleep is Enough?”, “Sleeping when your body is ready is also very important.…
Sleep. It’s something that everyone does, and we spend about a third of our lives doing it. However most people don’t think about it that much, or perhaps think they could be more productive without it, especially because so many people have no idea what goes on during sleep. Everyone agrees that getting less than optimal sleep feels terrible the next day, but sleep deprivation is still a chronic problem. The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 30 percent of American adults are sleeping six or fewer hours a day, which is significantly under the recommended 7-9 hours for adults by the National Sleep Foundation.…
People are informed now that lack of sleep can cause many troubles. For example: car accidents,…
First off, sleep helps people perform their daily tasks whether it be a job or going to school. Whatever it might be, we humans need energy to focus on important things. Like school, school work, doing your job correctly, ect. For example in Source #1, “How Much Sleep Is Enough”, it goes into depth about if you routinely lose sleep or choose to sleep less than needed, the sleep loss adds up. Sleep is an essential…
Homework chap 3 lifespan Chap 3 Assignment Questions 1. Explain how sleep patterns are characterized over the course of life: infancy, childhood, adolescence/emerging adulthood and adulthood/aging (briefly for each of the 4 stages When we consider the sleep patterns during infancy, we have learned that newborns need approximately 16 to 17 hours a day but, some sleep more than others. Newborns sleep is sporadic: so the need to eat and to change diaper might modify the sleep pattern. Although, the range is from a low of about 10 hours or to high 21 hours per day.…
Sleep is a dynamic and regulated set of behavioral and physiological states during which many processes vital to health and well-being take place (sleepfoundation.org) . Why is sleep important? Sufficient sleep is…
Eleven healthy, young adult men who voluntarily restricted their sleep to four hours per night for six days were in a pre-diabetic state by the end of the week. While we already knew that sleep is necessary for the brain, these findings on the benefits of sleep pushed sleep research into the deeper realm of potential medical problems. Benefits of Sleep: Weight A study that looked at nearly 1000 working adults in rural Iowa found that those who slept less had a higher BMI (Body Mass Index). The results were the same even when adjusted for confounding factors.…
The correlation between sleep deprivation and health deterioration Sleep is an activity everyone takes part in. Some require more sleep than others and some can have as little as two hours of sleep with little or no repercussions, although Cartwright (2010) notes, “Very few people are truly physiologically and psychologically healthy with only 5 hours of sleep on a nightly basis”. One may wonder if they are getting adequate nightly sleep. Cartwright (2010) explains how there is no real way to determine this.…
According to recent studies, “…not sleeping for 24 hours is the equivalent of having a blood alcohol level of .10, the legal limit in most states” (Source 1). Because of this, “…drowsy drivers are responsible for at least 100,000 automobile crashes, 71,000 injuries, and 1,550 fatalities each year” (Source 2), as stated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Most of these problems are caused by a lack of sleep, or sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is the condition of not having an adequate amount of sleep. Although it is understandable to skip a couple hours of sleep once in a while, it is proven to be deleterious to one’s health and body if one has had a lack of sleep for a long period of time.…
Although working and studying are most people’s main priorities, having good health is also very important. Getting enough sleep every night can play a vital role in an individual 's daily life. Not getting enough sleep can cause more stress, depression, lethargy and many other complications that can take a toll on your health. I have experienced this personally, I work overnight so when I get home in the mornings I try to get everything done that I have to do for the day and then sleep for at least 4-6 hours.…
Sleep is a very important aspect for sustaining a healthy lifestyle and having a fully functional body. Sleep plays a very important role in physical health. During your sleep, your body actually heals and repairs the heart and blood vessels. Sleep deficiency, or not getting enough sleep, can actually increase your risk of acquiring heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and even…
Sleeping Sleep; we all love it, we all need it, and yet many of us may not even know how much it really benefits us. It’s relatively common knowledge that eight hours of sleep is recommended by doctors and that getting any less than that can end up being bad for you. But just how bad can it really be? Will you just be tired in the mornings, less productive at work, or simply crash sometime during the day and take a nap to recover? In reality, the effects of poor sleep can be more serious and much harder to fix than you may think.…