People who wake up in the middle of the night bathing in sweat should drink tea regularly. It is supposed to reduce nightmares. Feelings of stress are also said to be relieved by the warm drink. This is the result of a Japanese study.
Those who drink lots of green or black tea have up to […]
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It is often thought that exercising during the day makes you sleep longer, but now it has been shown that you actually sleep shorter.
The researchers had expected as well that the people, who exercised the most during the day, would sleep longer, but the opposite turned out to be true. The more active the volunteers […]
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Many people watch tv at night and stay up too late because of it. This way they don’t get the recommended amount of sleep. Research among more than 21.000 Americans showed this.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine saw that people often stay up too long, even though they had to get […]
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People who sleep less hours often have more excess wait than people who sleep longer. This is the result of a recently done American study.
Even though people who don’t sleep a lot are very active during the day, they do gain weight faster. Hormones play a role in this according to the researchers. In people […]
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Are mobile phones bad for your health? The Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF), representative of Nokia and Samsung among others, asked the University of Uppsala to research what effect calling with the mobile phone has on sleep. For 18 months 70 test subjects were exposed to 884 megahertz, comparable to the radio waves of a cell […]
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The sleep of smokers is less deep than that of non-smokers and smokers feel often less rested after a full night of sleep.
Brain scans of smokers show that at night they experience light withdrawal symptoms. This causes a light disturbance of the sleep. Also nicotine makes it harder to fall asleep.
Forty middle-aged smokers participated in […]
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Short nights have more serious consequences than just feeling tired. People who sleep too little have a higher risk of developing diabetes. This was discovered by scientists at the Columbia University in New York. They investigated the development of diabetes over a period of 10 years. People who slept on average 5 hours or less […]
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Although watching television is not dangerous for your eyes, it is dangerous for the rest of your body. This is the result of an American study. The number one reason is that you eat 71% more when you watch tv. And of course you watch tv sitting down and not being physically active. Also prolonged […]
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Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have discovered that the more often you wake up in the middle of the night, the greater your risk of stroke and heart attack later in life.
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