Feb 3, 2014 | Sleep and health, Sleep and holidays, Sleep tips
If you can only pick one thing to change about your life in the New Year, you should choose to get one more hour of sleep each night. It might sound like a simple thing. It might seem like a much lower priority than other things like losing weight, reducing stress,...
Jan 22, 2014 | Sleep and health, Sleep and women
On January 23rd, people around the world will observe Women’s Healthy Weight Day. This observance, now in its 21st year, centers around providing women and young girls with examples of what a healthy weight looks like as well as permission to feel good at a healthy...
Dec 5, 2012 | Sleep and health, Sleep and weight Loss
Everyone has heard the old question which came first, the chicken or the egg. New research has people wondering the same thing about weight and sleep. Past studies have shown that one of the consequences of sleep deprivation can be weight gain. When we don’t get...
Dec 3, 2012 | Sleep and health, Sleep and holidays, Sleep tips
There is this idealistic view of the holidays that has something to do with sugarplums dancing in someone’s head but the truth is that most of us won’t get enough sleep over the coming weeks to have a sugar plum dream. Most of us are already stretched to the limit...
Nov 13, 2012 | Cancer, Sleep and health, Sleep and women
If you are a woman and you work overnight shifts the news is not good. Two new studies into the effects of shift work on health outcomes have reinforced the negative consequences of following this type of schedule. The first study further established the link...
