You might not care about your sleep—or at least you might not think you do. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead,” you may mutter to yourself as you sip your coffee morning, noon and night. But perhaps you do care about your physical appearance. (Let’s be honest: most of us do to some degree.) Believe it or…
Category: Health & Wellness
Get to Sleep! How Bedtime Could Yield Better Grades
Well, parents, here’s some leverage for the ever-challenging enforcement of bedtime for your kids: A new study shows that kids who sleep well do better in school, specifically when it comes to math and languages. Shocker. Doubtless this is not the first time you’ve heard this idea…or said it to your offspring. But now there is…
Techniques to Help You Relax: Part III
In this three-part series on techniques to help you stave off stress, relax and sleep better, we’ve written so far about 10 things you can do to bring on the peacefulness and beat that insomnia. We’ve discussed the benefits of making time for yourself, being present, focusing on your breath, tuning in to your body,…
Tips to Help You Relax: Part II
Stress and sleep are not good bedfellows. Stress can mess with your rest and cause a vicious cycle of anxious days and sleepless nights. And these days, who among us doesn’t have experience bit of stress? Perhaps you read our last blog with the first five of 15 relaxation techniques to help you get to…
Techniques to Help You Relax: Part I
It’s time to go to bed. But your heart rate is up and your mind is racing with the events of the day, expectations for tomorrow and things on your pesky to-do list. Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone. Roughly 60 million Americans deal with insomnia and about one in three will have insomnia…
Relax: An Economist Said It’s OK
Do Americans dislike R&R? Well, that seems unlikely. But we don’t seem to be very good at it. New economic research suggests that U.S. adults don’t relax much, even on nights and weekends. The economists found that Americans work longer hours and are more likely to work late nights and weekends than their counterparts in…
Teens Want to Sleep In. Should We Let Them?
We don’t know about you, but many of us got the “Lazybones” or “Sleepyhead” moniker when we were teenagers and didn’t want to get out of bed on school mornings. “You’re sleeping your life away!” Mom or Dad complained on the weekends when we finally got to catch some extra Zzzs. We may have felt…
How Much Sleep Do You Need? Your Genes Might Decide
What do Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon and Margaret Thatcher have in common? They all got by on a skimpy allotment of sleep. There’s no evidence to suggest that those three were related (what a family reunion that would be…of course it would require a time machine). But perhaps their genes had something to do with…
Why 7 Hours of Sleep Might Beat 8
We’ve been hearing it for years: seven to nine hours of sleep is the recommended best for adults. But lately, experts have been honing their understanding of the ideal length of a night’s sleep, and they’re changing their tune…a little. According to the Wall Street Journal, sleep scientists are now taking into account a bunch…
Sleep Your Way to Aging Well
Living a long life is great, but the quality of our years is at least as important as the quantity. In our world today, people are living longer than ever. How to make the most of that time? Well, that’s a bigger question that anyone can answer in a blog. But we found a recent…