For the study, very short sleep patterns were defined as less than five hours a night, short sleep was five to six hours a night, standard sleep was seven to eight hours, and long sleep was nine or more hours a night.
Study subjects who had less than seven hours of sleep were at greater risk than those who got eight hours of sleep a night.
The competitors take turns sleeping in a shared single bed and get little more than five hours of sleep a night if they're lucky.
Our goal was to come together to find more ways to make sure that a woman suffering from violence in her home has a safe place to sleep at night, a lawyer when she needs protection in court, and an advocate who helps her break free from abuse.
Positive human contact is as important as, if not more so than, a good night's sleep or a proper diet.
Before, business travelers were interested in only three things from a hotel -- a decent night's sleep, a shower and a good breakfast.
It means the difference between a healthy happy family that can sleep at night with a full stomach or having to tell my son that we may all have to go to bed hungry.
Investors who buy homes as a store of value, rather than as a place to sleep at night, are rushing to their realtors before the government implements a 20% capital gains tax on housing sales.
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Fu, who describes herself--inaccurately--as "pretty relaxed, " claims she usually gets seven hours of sleep a night.
Fu, who describes herself--inaccurately-- as "pretty relaxed, " claims she usually gets seven hours of sleep a night.
According to the National Institutes of Health, most adults need seven to eight hours of sleep a night.
Melatonin is vital for maintaining the body's correct diurnal rhythms - helping a person sleep at night and stay awake during the day.
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About 45% of adolescents ages 11 to 17 get less than eight hours of sleep a night, even though teenagers need between nine and 10 hours.
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Recent studies conducted by scientists in Israel showed that even losing an hour of sleep a night can have a noticeable effect on a child's mental performance.
Senior staff that spend every minute with the candidate, including the traveling press secretary and body person, can sometimes average 3-4 hours of sleep a night, almost always in a different bed.
The app sets goals for you according to World Health Organization guidelines, like eight hours of sleep a night and 10, 000 steps a day, and shows the average met by most Up users.
I'll admit, I was operating on about four continuous hours of sleep a night in the six months post-birth, a far cry from the seven I require to feel rested and better equipped to handle life's demands, parental or otherwise.
In a nutshell, if you sleep for eight hours a night go to work and find yourself lolling and drooling on the keyboard, you aren't getting enough.
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For starters, your doc may have you visit a sleep specialist to rule out sleep apnea, a common breathing disorder that wakes sufferers several times a night, sometimes without them even knowing it.
"Every single night in this house is a broken night's sleep so we were really looking forward to it, " said Ms Packham.
Guan said he watched a little television Wednesday night and after a good sleep had only slight nerves as he approached the first tee.
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They carry bags, maybe a little food for the night or a mat to sleep on.
This includes treatment for 80% of the 250, 000 to 350, 000 people who suffer from fatigue due to multiple sclerosis, and perhaps 200, 000 of the 12 million patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that causes a person to stop breathing during the night, but which also causes daytime sleepiness, says Cephalon spokeswoman Sheryl Williams.
Dr. David Palat, a pulmonologist who works on sleep disorders, told me that a technician had scanned the data I had generated that night nowadays, of course, sleep data are recorded by computer, rather than on a ream of paper and had analyzed the information so that it could be presented in a series of tables.
He began with 40 depressed patients who had been successfully lifted from their depression by a night without sleep.
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They have had their reactions measured, been deprived of sleep for a night and had electrodes attached to their brains.
Subsequent research, although desultory, showed that 60% or more of depressives respond often dramatically to a night of sleep deprivation, and that the transformation of mood usually occurs in the latter half of the night.
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The average adult sleeps seven hours a night but many sleep considerably less than this, especially people over 50.
To toughen the ordeal, competitors were provided with just their water supply and a tent to sleep in at night.
She tried not to think about how she looked right now, about the loose skin under her eyes from a night of no sleep.
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