They also worked to make an energy drink, an electrolyte drink, and a melatonin shot aimed to promote healthy rest and sleep.

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The results are no rest and no deep sleep.

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"Society as a whole needs to stay more healthy, eat more healthy, take exercise, and get enough rest, including sleep, " says the chief executive of an Asian pharmaceutical company.

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We would sleep in rudimentary rest-houses and eat only what we had managed to cram into our rucksacks.

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It's my cue to be careful -- to steer clear of red wine and sugar, two sure triggers when I'm in that sensitive state, and to get enough rest since lack of sleep can tip me over the edge, too.

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Programmers--sorry, seamen--hired from places like India and Russia would have their own cabins, work eight- or ten-hour stretches on either a day or night shift and have the rest of the time to sleep, play shuffleboard or take a water taxi to shore.

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Since where offenders lived was defined as where they slept, many would spend the day at home with their families and sleep at night in their cars at a highway rest stop.

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"I put the bedroom in because sometimes I don't sleep very well at night and sometimes I like to rest in the afternoon, " she says.

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According to a 2011 poll, more than half of Americans between the ages of thirteen and sixty-four experience a sleep problem almost every night, and nearly two-thirds complain that they are not getting enough rest during the week.

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