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Live Your Life Well: Get Enough Sleep
How Sleep Helps
Sleep may seem like a waste of time. You could instead be answering e-mail, doing the dishes, repairing the deck or decking the halls. But research shows that you’re more likely to succeed at your tasks—and enjoy greater well-being—if you get some serious shuteye.
Of course, it’s not easy to sleep when you’re feeling overwhelmed. In fact, nearly two-thirds of Americans say they lose sleep because of stress. That’s especially unfortunate because sleep 
combats some of the fallout of stress, and poor sleep has been linked to significant problems, including:
- greater risk of depression and anxiety
- increased risk of heart disease and cancer
- impaired memory
- reduced immune system functioning
- weight gain
- greater likelihood of accidents
Creating Good Nights Are You Getting Enough Rest?
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Understanding Sleep: Deep Sleep, REM Sleep, Cycles, Stages, and Needs
What happens if we don’t get enough sleep?
Many of us want to sleep as little as possible. There is so much to do that sleep seems like a waste of time. Yet sleep, an essential time of rest and rejuvenation, benefits our minds and bodies in many ways. When you continuously don’t get the amount of sleep you need, you begin to pay for it in daytime drowsiness, trouble concentrating, irritability, increased risk of falls and accidents, and lower productivity.
Sleep benefits to our mood, memory and concentration
Have you ever pulled an “all nighter” to study for a final exam, only to find that you can barely remember what you studied during the test? Sleep helps to organize memories, solidify learning, and improve concentration. Proper sleep, especially sleep where you are actively dreaming (REM sleep), regulates mood as well. Lack of sleep can make you irritable and cranky, affecting your emotions, social interaction, and decision making. Sleep deprivation also affects motor skills, enough to be similar to driving while drunk if seriously sleep deprived. Driver fatigue, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, causes over 100,000 accidents and 1500 deaths each year.
Sleep benefits to our immune system, nervous system and development
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Best Sleep Medication
Waking up tired? Tossing and turning at night? Your not alone hundreds of thousands of people suffer from poor sleep everyday. Poor sleep affects their lives, work, and happiness. Fortunately there are effective sleep remedies and medications to help ease your self into a peaceful and refreshing nights sleep. Picking the best sleep medication that suits your needs is essential.
There are a few general categories for sleep aids and medication. Over the counter sleep aids, prescription sleep aids, and natural sleep aids.
How Can I Get My Baby To Sleep Through The Night?
How Can I Get My Baby To Sleep Through The Night?
Every new parent asks themselves, “How can I get my baby to sleep through the night?†While there aren’t any solutions that work every time for every situation, there are some things that parents can try to make this possible. With proper baby sleep training, it is possible for parents to get the rest they need as well as assuring that their child is getting the sleep necessary for normal development.
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Educating mind and body III: Get some sleep
It turns out that sleep matters a lot for both aspects of memory.
How to Sleep Less – PickTheBrain
How much sleep do we really need? Of course it’s very personal, but “seven to eight hours should be enough” is what we keep hearing from most sources. But is it possible to shorten this time, without hurting your health?
Indeed, sufficient sleep time is important for your body to function well during the day. Sleep helps your body to recover from illness, minimizes the effect of stress, increases ability to concentrate, and improves memory and coordination. You don’t want to put these abilities at risk, do you?
The good news is that it is possible to shorten sleep time by up to 1 hour without the risk of sleep deprivation if you understand and follow these two simple rules.
How to Sleep Less
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Sleep Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Sleep: Understanding the Basics (cont.)
Importance of Sleep
Animal studies have shown that sleep is necessary for survival. The normal life span of rats is 2-3 years. However, rats deprived of sleep live for only about 3 weeks. They also develop abnormally low body temperatures and sores on their tails and paws. The sores probably develop because of impairment of the rats’ immune systems.
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Because Baby Sleep Shouldn’t Be Stressful
There seems to be nothing more perfect or more rare than a baby who actually sleeps like a baby. In fact, if you’re like most parents, solid nighttime sleep and effortless naps may seem more like a dream than a reality.
Infant Sleep Help – Dana Obleman’s Child Sleep Center
Infant Sleep Help
For many parents, seeking infant sleep help is a necessity. Infants are not born with good sleeping habits. They do not recognize the difference between night and day. This alone can be enough to wear out sleep deprived new parents. Luckily there are professionals that are trained to help parents enable their babies to develop good sleeping habits.
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How Many Hours of Sleep Does a Baby Need?
The sleep of an infant is quite unlike that of an adult. Not only do babies spend more time sleeping than adults, they also have different sleep patterns. Knowledge of how babies sleep helps with understanding why they need to sleep as much as they do.
Why Baby’s Sleep is Different
Basic biology plays a big part in the reasons a baby’s sleep requirements differ from those of adults. Circadian rhythms, those natural signals that tell us when to eat and sleep, do not develop in babies until they are 4 to 6 months old. As a result, babies can become hungry or tired at any time, not on any set schedule, like adults.
In both infants and adults, sleep is divided into active and quiet stages. Active sleep is also known as rapid eye movement or REM sleep. Dreaming occurs during this stage. Quiet sleep (also called non-REM sleep) consists of four phases: drowsiness, light sleep, deep sleep and very deep sleep.