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If you've been falling behind on sleep, this is the weekend to fall back into bed for an extra hour — and take advantage of the transition from daylight saving time to standard time.
Hilary Swank isn’t known for doffing her duds on the big screen. But her revelation that she goes nude in real life — in front of her boyfriend’s 6-year-old son — has sparked such a controversy that it threatens to upstage her bid for a third Oscar: a new biopic about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart.
Those beautiful, wacky and sometimes scary nighttime scenarios have powerful magic: They can help you conquer fears, resolve issues and show off your wild side. So tuck in, dream on — and write down your nocturnal adventures.
I can’t sleep on a plane, especially on long flights. I’m guessing it has something to do with having my body jammed into a space the size of a milk carton. But like most situations in life, the problem isn’t that simple.
You can’t avoid jet lag altogether, but you can minimize its effect, so you can get the mos
Scientists have discovered a gene that helps a mother and daughter stay alert on about six hours sleep a night, two hours less than the rest of their family needs.
Truck driver Kenneth Armstrong is a big guy with a bigger problem.
For years Deborah Africa would stay up late and sleep in, savoring every extra second of sleep before dragging herself out of bed by 10 a.m. When Africa had kids and switched to an earlier schedule, she thought getting up four hours earlier might make for a tough adjustment. But she soon noticed a subtle change in her mood: the new schedule seemed to make her a little more energetic and optimistic.
Sheriff's deputies said a man used horse tranquilizers to try to drift off into sleep at a Batesville motel. Deputies said the man was taken to the hospital around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Inside his room, deputies said they found syringes and three bottles of horse tranquilizers.
Most minor discomfort is a sign of ... not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something more serious. Since it's often hard to distinguish between the no big deal and the dire, most of us err on the side of ignoring the problem and hoping it goes away. "Women in midlife are often juggling 20 things at once, so they tend to neglect their own health," says Nieca Goldberg, MD, author of "Dr. Nieca Goldberg's Complete Guide to Women's Health."
When a doctor recently swore to a Glamour editor that he could help women lose weight just by making over their sleep habits, we were dubious. Research has linked lack of sleep to weight gain, but certainly weight loss requires hard work, diet and exercise — right? We decided to put it to the test.
Fluff up the pillows and pull up the covers. Preventing the common cold may be as easy as getting more sleep. Researchers paid healthy adults $800 to have cold viruses sprayed up their noses, then wait five days in a hotel to see if they got sick. Habitual eight-hour sleepers were much less likely to get sick than those who slept less than seven hours or slept fitfully.
How's this for luck: I recently found a great weekend rate for a swanky hotel in an expensive city. My minisuite had a giant flat-screen TV, a gas fireplace and one of those incredible “this isn’t a mattress, it’s a lifestyle” beds. Drifting off to sleep, I thought, “Fat chance you’ll get to do this again soon. Enjoy it while you can.”
Week after week, Dr. Robert Rey, better known as “Dr. 90210,” hits the floor of the surgery room to nip, tuck, lift and enhance women and men looking to beat the clock. Well, today he's left the knife at home and is sharing seven household beauty secrets that will enhance your looks and help you preserve your youth.
With today’s economic turmoil, it’s no wonder that people can’t get to sleep.
Shakespeare once called sleep the "balm of hurt minds." Bodies, too, apparently. People with the severe form of apnea, which interferes with sleep, are several times more likely to die from any cause than are folks without the disorder, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Sleep.
For Tiffanie Williams, a marketing executive from Boston, it’s chips and salsa and sappy movie marathons. For Paul Niemi, a communications specialist from Manhattan, it’s Chinese food and long weekends in bed. And for Susan Biali, a physician and life coach who splits her time between Vancouver, Canada, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, it’s skipped meals and late nights glued to the computer.
People who sleep fewer than six hours a night — or more than nine — are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies.
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. And when babies sleep less, they may gain too much weight. A new Harvard study finds that babies and toddlers who sleep fewer than 12 hours daily are at greater risk for being overweight in preschool, startling evidence that the link between sleep and obesity may affect even very young children.
Hours in the sack may have more to do with your weight than hours in the gym, finds a new study that shows too little — or too much — shuteye is a major factor in obesity.
Babbett Peterson thought there was nothing less sexy than her husband’s snoring — until he brought home the cure.
It’s that time of year, when crocuses bloom, the lawn starts to need mowing, and most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. (Remember? Spring forward, fall back.) So here are answers to your questions about the time switch — and about sleep.
When Benjamin Kidd was in pre-K last year, his teachers marveled at how bright, attentive and well-behaved he was — in the morning.
When Shakespeare called sleep the "chief nourisher of life's feast," he may have been well ahead of his time, medically at least. Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center report that disrupting sleep damages the body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels, potentially raising the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
If you watch movies and TV you'll see a lot of couples in bed together. No, I'm not talking about having sex (clean up your minds!), but rather just laying there together.
Man 'had nightmare about burglar and woke to find he had strangled wife'A husband who had a nightmare in which he fought a burglar woke to find he had strangled his wife, a court heard.
Husband with chronic sleep disorder strangled wife during nightmareProsecution asks jury for not guilty verdict because Brian Thomas dreamed he was tackling an intruder inside camper van in Wales
The link between sleeping in and staying slim - Kids who laze away weekend mornings less likely to be obese: studyThe findings, published in the journal Paediatrics, add to earlier research that showed a link between regular sleep deprivation and obesity.
Let Kids Sleep Late on Weekends to Fight Fat: Study"Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests."
Mind - Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake - NYTimes.comIn a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological.
Dreams as Anticipation for the State of Being Awake"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.
5 Habits to Break Before It's Too Late"Someday," you say, "I'm going to get my health back on track, after this next project," or "when I get back from my cruise," or "when the kids get a little older" ... C'mon, you know your list of reasons -- or what I call EXCUSES -- better than I.
I would really feel so much better if I knew that when suffering became unbearable I could order my last cocktail and go to sleep peacefully. I am at that age when it occurs to me it could be anything from now on out.
Let Kids Sleep Late on Weekends to Fight Fat: StudyLetting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests.
Boy, aged 4, arm ripped off in door-less washing machine - How did he survive whole night A four-year-old boy survived a whole night after his left arm was ripped off by a broken washing machine. The youngster and his brother (11) had snuck into the kitchen at night.
Pilots Say Laptops Contributed to Distraction - WSJ.comThe pilots of Northwest Flight 188 have told federal investigators that a bathroom break, chatting with a flight attendant in the cockpit and then taking out their laptops to discuss work schedules created distractions that led to more than an hour of radio silence with air-traff …
Man convicted of trying to rape woman while she slept next to husband An Orange County prosecutor suggested today in her final arguments in a sex-crimes trial that the defendant "didn't think it through necessarily."
Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zoneAs the blur between sleep and wakefulness becomes more widely accepted, researchers are devising techniques for capturing the brain's fleeting lapses and vacillations.
10-Year-Old Gets $260 Ticket At School A 10-year-old student was given a $260 ticket for disrupting class at his school, KFOX-TV in El Paso reported. For the boy's mother, the incident all started with a phone call at around 9 a.m. one day.
For baby, a breast-milk cappuccino: Morning feed gives infants a natural pick-me-upBreast-fed babies receive a different milk drink depending on the time of day - the natural equivalent of cappuccino in the morning and Horlicks at night, say scientists. Breast milk delivered in the morning gives infants a pick-me-up because it contains natural stimulants.
INVESTIGATION: Does trucker law cost lives? The investigation was prompted by a number of serious accidents around the state.
Severe interrogation techniques like sleep deprivation, stress positions, exploitation of phobias, and Dick Cheney's favorite, waterboarding aren't just reprehensible, they are based on bad science, according to Shane O"Mara, a stress researcher at Ireland's Trinity College Insti …
In 1953, Alfred Kinsey, Ph.D., the famous sexuality researcher, found that nearly 40 percent of the 5,628 women he interviewed experienced at least one nocturnal orgasm (orgasms during sleep), or "wet dream," by the time they were forty-five years old.
How to solve 9 sleep problems"Most of us have experienced those maddening midnight moments when, no matter how tired we are, we either can't fall asleep, can't stay asleep or our sleep is of such poor quality it feels as if we were awake.
I have a secret, I've been having a love affair off and on for several years now......with afternoon naps. There is nothing like the feeling of taking an afternoon nap with the kids, especially in the living room.
Enforcing bedtimes improve kids' healthI must seem like an old man around my friends.. I have to have my sleep at night. I hear about college students pulling 30+ hours of no sleep, I don't know how they do it. I can't.
The 10 Biggest Sleep Problems and How to Fix Them - Page 2 - MSN Health & Fitness - Health TopicsThis is a good and informative article. Sleep problems are awful and people need to pay more attention to their body
Sniff + sneezing = no love: 83 percent say allergies affect sex lifeSneezing and wheezing may stamp out those flames of desire. A new study reveals that allergies could be getting in the way of amorous activities.
Suspect Falls Asleep, Hostages Escape Kan. Home - Authorities say the man who held two newlyweds hostage in their Kansas home fell asleep and the couple escaped unharmed.
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