Is your child getting enough sleep? How can you tell and what can you do about it?
The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) released a survey which estimated that one-third of toddlers and preschoolers and nearly one in four school aged children aren’t getting enough sleep.
The consequences for lack of sleep are hardly unknown to parents who [...]
Experiencing an occasional sleepless night every now and again is normal and transient insomnia affects all of us from time to time, especially when we are under personal or professional stress, or our schedule changes significantly as a result of jet lag or shift work. But prolonged insomnia, lasting for perhaps six months or more, [...]
Narcolepsy, a chronic and commonly diagnosed sleep disorder, affects over a quarter of a million Americans each year (approximately one person in every two thousand). Characterized by the body’s inability to properly regulate sleep, narcolepsy’s most obvious symptoms can include cataplexy (involuntary loss of muscle control), “automatic” behaviors (performing regular, mundane tasks by rote), [...]
If you’ve ever found yourself counting sheep into the wee hours, then you can take some small comfort from the fact that you?re not alone.
Insomnia is plaguing more and more people each year and with the stresses of our daily lives, it’s no surprise. For more than 75% of Americans polled by the National [...]
A recent study done by the University of California and the
shocking finding of it: “People who sleep 8 hours or more
have a 50% higher mortality (death) rate than people who
sleep less.” Yes, it’s true that such a study was carried
out, in fact in a moment I will give you a link [...]
