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Sleep Less, Get Diabetes? Poor Sleep May Be a Diabetes Risk Factor, Study Says By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD Aug. 12, 2009 — If you’re getting too little sleep, you may also be getting diabetes. People at risk of diabetes tend to get too little sleep. They also [...]

Hello again, THere are lots of reasons that some folks can’t sleep. Stress can be a big contributor. Sometimes, stress or lack of physical activity contributes also. FOlks who are healthy enuf to have regularRegular insulin physical activity often sleep well because their bodies are also in need of rest to restore good functioning. Avoid [...]

This article is from the WebMD Feature Archive Can’t Shed Those Pounds? To lose weight seems to be the number one resolution each new year. However, nearly 90% of these resolutions meet with either little or no success. Some people even gain weight instead. Most people never know there may be a very simple reason [...]

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common problem in children, and is increasing being recognized as a cause of daytime attentional and behavioral problems. Unlike adults with sleep apnea, who are often overweight and frequently wake up at night, children with OSA are more difficult to recognize and diagnose. Symptoms Although snoring is a [...]

Image Gallery: Getting More Sleep See more sleep pictures. With an ever-increasing number of studies finding a direct connection between sleep deprivation and weight gain, it’s difficult to deny the cause-and-effect relationship. People who get at least seven hours of sleep per night tend to have less body fat than people who don’t. There are, [...]

Children, Obesity, And Sleep Some 13 percent of children aged 6 to 11 and 14 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 19 are overweight. The ever-increasing waistlines put children at risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. But there is another problem, often overlooked, accompanying the grim statistics from the U.S. [...]

Sleep: Fact or Fiction? How much do you know about sleep disorders? Review these statements and learn which are true and which are not. Health problems have no relation to the amount and quality of a person’s sleep. Fiction: More and more scientific studies are showing correlations between poor quality sleep and/or insufficient sleep with [...]

This article is from the WebMD Feature Archive Five Natural Remedies to Stop Snoring Here’s a classic one-liner: The wife says to her husband: “Do you know that snoring causes a lack of sleep? MINE!” Snoring is the butt of many jokes, but it’s no laughing matter to the millions of adults who snore and [...]

Only in the movies would you end up with Meg Ryan if you truly are Sleepless in Seattle. Never mind that you are Tom Hanks. In real life, Tom never gets to make out with Meg because he is sleep deprived. As a chronic insomniac, Tom would be… …Depressed, irritable and angry. When his young [...]