Sleep in General

Data on children, teens and adults confirm that sleep loss and sleep difficulties can have serious detrimental effects. Research specifically on adolescents and young adults is relatively new and limited, but scientists believe that many effects demonstrated in studies and clinical observations of adults are similar in adolescents. Sleep researchers, therefore, believe that insufficient sleep in teens and young adults is linked to: Increased risk of unintentional injuries and death.

  

  

» Read more 398 reads Getting the Sleep You Need Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/03/2007 - 19:38. Sleep in General Printed Source:  Reprinted from February 8, 2004 Awake magazine. Most of the progress in understanding sleep mechanics has been made in the last 50 years.  What has been learned explodes some long-standing misconceptions.    One is the assumption that since many bodily functions slow down during rest, sleep is little more than a state of inactivity.  » Read more 263 reads « first‹ previous…2345678910next ›last » Subscribe to this feed using RSS For more information on RSS, visit Wikipedia.

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