Sleep Crisis: The Science of Slumber - Go to bed. On time. Tonight. Or else.

[and/or www.mantra.com/jai]

Sleep Crisis: The Science of Slumber - Go to bed. On
time. Tonight. Or else.

By Luiza Ch. Savage
Maclean's
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

The sleep doctors are coming and they want you to go to
bed. On time. Tonight. Every night. Or else.

They want doctors to add a single question to routine
checks of vital signs like body temperature, pulse, blood
pressure and rate of breathing. The question is: How did
you sleep?

If you�re like most people, probably not well, or at
least not enough.

Coffee-fuelled North Americans, with our smartphones at
our bedsides, are sleeping, on average, nearly two hours
less than we were 40 years ago, when most people slept 8�
hours or more. More and more people are being diagnosed
with sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing is
disrupted during sleep. And insomnia, which affects about
10 per cent of the population, is no longer considered
merely a symptom of other medical or psychiatric problems
but has been classified as a full-fledged disorder in its
own right.

The scientific evidence is mounting that getting less
than the recommended seven to nine hours of nightly sleep
is having wide-ranging impacts on our bodies, our minds
and, especially, on the health of our children, who need
even more sleep: 10 to 11 hours per night.

In March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention declared that �insufficient sleep is a public
health epidemic.� It released a survey showing that more
than 35 per cent of U.S. adults reported getting less
than seven hours of sleep a night; 38 per cent reported
unintentionally falling asleep at least once during the
day in the preceding month.

Continues at:

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/17/the-sleep-crisis/

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj