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Ever wonder why you want to eat a box of doughnuts after a lousy night’s sleep? It’s no coincidence—it’s hormones. Read on to understand how your sleep affects your appetite.
Everyone, turn on your radios! KQED is holding a forum on sleep apnea today. The forum focuses on the correlation between sleep apnea and dementia. A neurologist and sleep specialist from Stanford, the executive director of the [...]
It’s the question that presents the enduring challenge for the modern traveler: How to sleep on the plane?
When do you know it’s time to buy a new mattress? It’s a good question. There are a few quick indicators that will help you figure out if the time has come to replace your mattress. First, a mattress slept on nightly will decline in performance after ten years, even if it’s high quality. Mattresses are commonly [...]
Along with swollen ankles and morning sickness, disrupted sleep is one of the hallmarks of pregnancy. The first two ailments are par for the course, and won’t do much more than make you uncomfortable. However, poor sleep during pregnancy can do more than feel uncomfortable–it can compromise the health of you and your baby. Getting [...]
More than a few studies have shown adequate sleep to be a key player in the maintenance of a healthy body weight in adults. Now, maternal and child health researcher Janice Bell of the University of Washington has shown that this correlation is equally important for children. The less sleep these children got, the more likely [...]
Whether we get too much, too little, or just enough, sleep impacts our body in a variety of ways, some for the better, some for the worse. Did you know: …Too much sleep prematurely ages the brain? …Staying up too late increases the body’s propensity for weight gain? …Growth in infants bears a critical relationship [...]
At European Sleep Works, we’re kind of coil fanatics. Yeah, it’s a bit nerdy, but we get excited by stuff like innovative new coil designs. Coils literally provide the foundation of a mattress. They play an important role in determining how comfortable a mattress feels and how much support it provides. We continually reassess the [...]
From the time we’re little, we hear about things that go bump in the night. As life goes on, we start to hear things that actually do go bump in the night, or rather, “zzzzzz” or “waaaaaa” in the night. “Noise Canceling Devices for a Good Night’s Sleep” reviews an array of white noise machines [...]
Pop quiz! Time for the question of the day, just to check if you’re awake: Do you know what the acronym UARS stands for? Many people are aware of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, the most prevalent form of sleep disordered breathing, but few know about UARS, or Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. Doctors who study UARS [...]
