Lack of sleep linked to early death: study
Wed May 5, 9:44 am ET
LONDON (AFP) – People who get less than six hours sleep per night have an increased risk of dying prematurely, researchers said on Wednesday.
Those who slumbered for less than that amount of time were 12 percent more likely to die early, though researchers also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours and premature death.
"If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol," Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain's University of Warwick, told AFP.
The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found "unequivocal evidence of the direct link" between lack of sleep and premature death.
"We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms," Cappuccio said.
The findings of the study were published in the Sleep journal.
Cappuccio believes the duration of sleep is a public health issue and should be considered as a behavioural risk factor by doctors.
"Society pushes us to sleep less and less," Cappuccio said, adding that about 20 percent of the population in the United States and Britain sleeps less than five hours.
Sleeping less than six hours is "more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift work"
The study also found a link between sleeping more than nine hours per night and premature death, but Cappuccio said oversleeping is more likely to be an effect of illness, rather than a cause.
"Doctors never ask how much one sleeps, but that could be an indicator that something is wrong," said Cappuccio, who heads the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick.
Research showed no adverse effects for those sleeping between six and eight hours per day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100505/hl_afp/healthsciencesleepbritainitaly
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Dunstan Baby Language
Explaining how to decode your baby’s cues & cries
The Dunstan Baby Language
For millions of sleep-deprived mothers around the world,
this woman's findings could be a miracle! Priscilla Dunstan, a mom from Australia with
a special gift, says she's unlocked the secret language of babies.
When Priscilla was a toddler, her parents discovered she had
a photographic memory for sound. At age 4, she could hear a Mozart concert on
the piano and play it back note for note.
That mysterious second language took on an astounding new
meaning when Priscilla became a mother to her baby, Tom.
After testing her baby language theory on more than 1,000
infants around the world, Priscilla says there are five words that all babies
0–3 months old say—regardless of race and culture:
Neh="I'm hungry"
Owh="I'm sleepy"
Heh="I'm experiencing discomfort"
Eair="I have lower gas"
Eh="I need to burp"
Those "words" are actually sound reflexes,
Priscilla says. "Babies all around the world have the same reflexes, and
they therefore make the same sounds," she says. If parents don't respond
to those reflexes, Priscilla says the baby will eventually stop using them.
Priscilla recommends that parents listen for those words in a baby's pre-cry before they start crying hysterically. She says there is no one sound that's harder to hear than others because it varies by individual. She also says some babies use some words more than others.
Priscilla recommends that parents listen for those words in a baby's pre-cry before they start crying hysterically. She says there is no one sound that's harder to hear than others because it varies by individual. She also says some babies use some words more than others.
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DVD 1 (Lesson 1): An introduction to the
Dunstan Baby Language system. Learn the first 3 words of your baby’s language,
see numerous examples, get helpful advice and tips on how to “tune your ear”,
learn settling techniques and hear from other parents who have learnt the
system.
DVD 2 (Lesson 2): Learn the final 2 words
of your baby’s language, see numerous examples, get helpful advice and tips,
learn settling techniques, hear from other parents, and see Priscilla in a live
lesson environment teaching new mothers the system with remarkable results.
The system is supported with a 24 page reference booklet
offering additional hints and advice and a quick reference wall chart.
The above info is
from the Oprah Winfrey Show
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