Having a quality sleep all night long is a critical element for good health.
It is scientifically demonstrated the multitude of repair processes that occur during sleep and that only ensuring a deep and uninterrupted sleep produces its beneficial effects.
Choosing the mattress that best suits your body will be critical to getting that optimal rest.
CHOOSING A MATTRESS
We know that searching for a mattress entails an important learning process on technological developments since it is likely that many years have passed since the last purchase, so we want to give some very simple guidelines that serve as reference:
We slept a third of our lives. It gives importance to this process of buying a mattress. A mattress is a product that will be our bed, where we will sleep an average of
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The sleeping posture is not a parameter that marks the options much since almost all mattresses are designed for the usual forms of rest, face up, face down, side and changing.
The weight is an important element since although the mattresses are prepared to support 2 people of 90-100 kg, there are technologies that are recommended more for people with greater weight, for durability of materials should be oriented to the mattresses of continuous springs.
With the firmness sought, the measurement, the needs of treatments and ventilation, and the weight of both sleepers we can give the specialist a good portrait robot photo of what we need. It will be interesting to tell the rest counselor if it is for a first or second home or if you are going to be in a very humid area.
Finally have a budget in mind. If a mattress lasts an average of 10 years, the count of dividing between 3650 which are the average days in which you will sleep on the mattress you are looking for will give you a dimension of the
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McKenna, James J. “Safe Cosleeping Guidelines.” Mother-Baby Behavioral Laboratory, University of Notre Dame. N.d. Web. 22 March 2014
Co-sleeping is an issue that is vital on different traditional and cultural influences. Due to modifications in socio-economic status, social ethics and values, there are variations of cultures amongst countries and regions viewing on co-sleeping (Huang & Wang, pg. 170). For example, in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and several other industrialized countries, the predominant medical belief is that co-sleeping is to be depressed and discouraged, despite the lack of research that can validate and establish that co-sleeping is mostly dangerous, unsafe, and hazardous (Huang & Wang, pg. 170).
Sleep is one of our basic needs to survive and to function in day to day operations, but not everyone needs the same amount of sleep. Some people can survive on very little sleep, i.e. five hours a night, and some people need a lot of sleep, to the extend that they are sleeping up to 10 to sometimes 15 hours a night (Nature, 2005). According to Wilson (2005) the general rule states that most people need from seven to eight hours of sleep. The deprivation of sleep in our society in continually increasing with the demands in society increasing work loads, the myth that a few hours of sleep is only necessary to function properly and that sleep is sometimes considered as killing time (Nature, 2005). Sometimes sleep deprivation is also caused by other situations like sleep disorders, i.e. sleep apnea, chronic insomnia or medical conditions such as stress (Wilson, 2005).
Methods: The research was conducted by the use of multiple types of surveys which were conducted by telephone. The first was a sleep survey called the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) which is a forty-five item questionnaire that examines the previous w...
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To sleep an individual usually requires relaxed skeletal muscles in their posture (sleep. 2014). Also according to the many research done by United States, United Kingdom and Australia (sleep. 2014) a person usually needs to sleep for a certain amount of time depending on if it is a weekday or weeknight. Adults are supposed to sleep between ‘6 to 9 hours per night’ (sleep. 2014). However, according to sleep polls that had been undertaken by United States in 2009 and in 1998, 6 hours per night sleeping had increased from ‘12 percent in 1998 to 20 percent in 2009’(sleep. 20149. REM decreases after a night of sleep for ‘100 minute’ every night (MARZANO et al, 2010). On the other hand, there had been a decrease during the same period when the poll was created to see the average of individuals sleep for 8 hours’ (sleep.2014). For 8 hours there had decrease from ‘35 percent of people to 28 percent (sleep. 2014). In the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, adults have an average less than 7 hours of sleep per night during weekdays, which is not enough due to the amount of work they have during the day and can lead to disorders.
In 2010, over fifty million U.S. adults were reported to have sleep and/or wakefulness disorder. The culprit of these disorders is from lack of quality sleep throughout the population. Many Americans believe there are many things to do before sleeping. Sleep affects how all people function while awake. An adequate amount of sleep is important because, it keeps people awake and focused, even though people’s sleep needs vary, and how lack of deep sleep affects the body both mentally and physically.
A restorative theory claims that sleep is used to repair the body including the brain. Oswald suggests that slow wave sleep is when body repair occurs and REM sleep is when the brain is repaired. This is supported by the fact that there is an increase in the secretion of growth hormones during SWS. This could also explain why brain activity levels are high during REM sleep, and similar to when awake.
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Sleep is important and necessary for quality mental and physical health as well as quality of life and safety (NHLBI, 2012). People with sleep deficiency are at an increased risk of motor vehicle accidents, are prone to reduced work productivity, and have decreased levels of concentration (Hedges, 2012). Continued sleep deficiency can raise one’s risk for chronic health problems (NHLBI, 2012). Therefore, a consistent sleep pattern is necessary to achieve and maintain quality of life. The nurse can assist the patient suffering from sleeping difficulty in achieving a
Everyone has had nights where they toss and turn in bed worrying about getting enough sleep, to make it through the next day (Insomnia:Overview, 2017; Insomnia, 2017). If constant worry or bad sleep habits are preventing people from getting some good rest. They may be suffering from
How often have you ever woken up and wondered why sleep is needed in the first place and questioned the importance of it? Those are very popular questions that many humans ask today, as sleep is an essential part of a person’s health and wellbeing, yet people all over the world each night do not get enough sleep. This research essay will be looking at the nature of sleeping, the importance of getting a good night’s rest and the consequences if a person does not get enough sleep. A good night's sleep is incredibly important for health and making a person feel better. Sleep is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle, and can have many beneficial factors for the body, mind, and so much more as “ an average human sleeps