We can always work more, do more with our kids, organize and clean more, work out more, sleep more.
Those who exercise need less sleep--and they sleep more deeply when they do.
Dr Melissa Hack, chairman of the British Sleep Society, said that women generally tended to sleep more lightly than men, and so often expected they were not going to sleep well.
More sleep: Formula milk is more difficult to digest for the baby so they tend to sleep longer.
In many cases the quality of sleep was more important that the quantity, he said.
Knowing that the dream frightened and upset his sleep was more disturbing to me, than the dream itself, but not to him.
Take "Sleep No More, " the immersive theater project in which masked audience members wander through the set, fiddling with props and engaging with the performers.
You may feel guilty hitting the snooze button and skipping the morning workout, but sometimes the extra hour of sleep is more important than an hour on the treadmill.
Sleep matters more than you may think.
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Having said that, we do know sleep is key: Teens need an average of one or two hours more sleep than their 9- and 10-year-old siblings, yet studies show most teens gets a few hours less.
In a new study published today in the journal Current Biology, Roenneberg and his colleagues surveyed the sleep habits of more than 65, 000 adults and found that people with different weekday and weekend sleep schedules had triple the odds of being overweight.
If snoring is combined with feeling sleepy during the day and experiencing pauses in breathing during sleep, people may be suffering from the more serious sleep apnoea - which affects 10 to 20% of snorers - and should see their GP.
The study offers "one more data point that sleep-deprived people have more weight issues, " Lundberg adds.
And it turns out, that both in humans and in animals - this has been actually very well documented - sleep-deprived animals and sleep-hungry people, turn out to be hungry for more than sleep.
Mr. Ellis says he couldn't understand how anyone could need more sleep than he did.
"I lost a lot more sleep than I usually do" worrying about the situation, he said.
The better you sleep, the more balanced your body and mind will be throughout the day.
Women may need more sleep than men, Prof Horne says, due to the structure of their brains.
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For me, at least, getting more sleep was a habit that was self-reinforcing.
Contrary to popular belief, that extra early-morning hour doesn't necessarily mean more sleep.
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And that fact that 73% of the world uses alarm clocks, says Dr Idzikowski, confirms the need for more sleep.
He said many people may be even more sleep deprived in their daily lives than those in the study - suggesting these changes may be common.
Hader announced last week that he was leaving SNL after eight seasons to move to California and get more sleep, which meant his memorable characters were also saying goodbye.
Many of the behaviors that improve health, such as getting more sleep and making better eating choices, also lead to experiences, such as reduced stress, that contribute to happier lives.
People with a sleep efficiency of less than 92 percent had a 5.5-times greater risk of developing a cold than those with a 98 percent or more sleep efficiency.
Teenagers tend to have even more sleep issues.
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With devices like these a health insurance company could offer you discounts for keeping your stress level low, eating healthy, getting more sleep, and generally engaging in behaviors that make you healthier and thus cheaper to insure.
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Maybe we all might have gotten a lot more sleep had we known about recent results of another GRACE satellite study published in the journal Nature that shows that Himalayan glaciers are hardly melting at all.
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Not only was it much better than any of the US airline lounges, it certainly beat eating on the plane, and by skipping the entire inflight meal service, it let me get more sleep on an otherwise relatively short flight.
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If you have been feeling down for about a month or are experiencing symptoms such as insomnia or the need for much more sleep and a loss or increase in appetite, you might be suffering from depression and should seek the help of a professional, suggests Grayson.
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