Jan 14, 2014 | Sleep and health, Sleep Articles
One of the tasks of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is to monitor, assess, track, and report on public health hazards. To the public, this generally means things like flu outbreaks or food poisoning events. But in recent years, the data collected by the CDC...
Jan 7, 2014 | Sleep and health, Sleep tips
Most of us aren’t getting as much sleep as we need. An average adult needs 7-9 hours of sleep every night and it doesn’t take too many nights of lost sleep for that sleep debt to start accumulating. Unfortunately, what we know about sleep tells us that not getting...
Jan 6, 2014 | Sleep and health, Sleep and holidays
The holiday season is wrapping up and New Year’s Day just flew by. For many people this meant going to a great party, kissing someone at midnight, and a new set of resolutions. Despite how different we all are, when it comes to resolutions and the things we want to...
Dec 26, 2013 | Sleep and health
In recent years, countless studies have shown just how important sleep is to our physical health. Not getting enough sleep has been tied to everything from heart disease to diabetes and highlighting the important role sleep plays in how our immune system functions,...
Dec 23, 2013 | Sleep and health
Over the past year we have focused in on the link between diabetes and sleep to highlight new research aimed at helping increase our understanding of how the two are related. Here is an aggregation of all these research findings that help explain how sleep affects...
Dec 10, 2013 | Sleep and health
Previous research has established the link between not getting enough sleep and an increased risk for type 2 diabetes and other health conditions. A new study from the University of Helsinki may explain why this link exists. The study was undertaken by the...
