I have often in these virtual pages emphasized the importance of sleep in reducing the severity of chronic pain. Sleep has been shown in fibromyalgia studies to be extremely important in reducing the pain fibromyalgia patients experience, and a lack of sleep appears to contribute to the misery restless legs syndrome (RLS) patients experience.
Insomnia affects 10% to 20% of the United States population. Among the elderly, the percentage of those affected is 47%. For the year 2007, it is...
Fatty foods including ice cream, greasy French fries, and bacon, may taste good, but they aren't good for your health. In addition... Read more »
Here's the catch-22. You are told by health professionals, sleep experts, magazine and news articles, headlines in the news - that... Read more »
Your body is the crème dela crème of pharmacies. Forget Ambien or any sleep medication drugs you have seen advertised, if you want to... Read more »
If you think that I’m lazy, I probably could shrug it off. But if I considered myself lazy, it would be a blow to my self-esteem.That’s... Read more »
Your periods are changing. They are coming closer together, and then farther apart, with more bleeding or less, more cramps or less and... Read more »
A new study by Columbia University suggests that people who get five hours or fewer of sleep per night are about 60 percent more likely to develop... Read more »
New mothers who sleep less than five hours a night are at risk for gaining 11 pounds or more in their baby's first year, according to a new study.... Read more »
Researchers say that a lack of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep appears to trigger proteins that are linked to migraines. The proteins--PKA and... Read more »
As a mother of three teenagers, observing their current sleep habits makes me stop and wonder—why do all three of them appear to have morphed into... Read more »
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Sleep disorders involve any difficulties related to sleeping, including difficulty falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at inappropriate times,... Read more »
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