#sleepernews

By Vivian Giang

Not getting enough sleep regularly has major implications for your health and ability to perform on the job. 

To learn more about how sleep affects us, we turned to Robert Oexman, director of the Sleep to Live Institute. He told us that "lack of sleep can manifest itself in erratic behavior, short tempers, and bad decision-making."

"The son of a owner of a rice store is taking a nap at noon."

Source: ttt222 via China Forum, China Daily

That is one preview, but you have to go check them all out. 

They are incredible.

Results from the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study have shown an association between sleep apnea, breathing difficulty or the experience of stopped breathing during sleep, and cancer mortality rates. 

The study is a major breakthrough in establishing a link between breathing problems and cancer and raises a number of questions regarding what other bodily functions are disrupted by the problem. 

According to the Wisconsin Study of 1500 government workers in Wisconsin over 22 years, people who reported sleep breathing issues were five times more likely to die from cancer.

HuffPo reports from Science Daily that 47 million US adults are sleep deprived. And it is causing problems - memory lapses, weight problems, and more. 

According to a recent survey by the Better Sleep Council, 77% of people would give something up for sleep:

Here's what they said:

Time watching TV: 31%

Time spent on computer/smart device/social media: 23%

Church: 16%

Exercise: 16%

Sex: 12%

Time spent with family/friends/kids: 6%

$50-$100 a month: 6%

More than $100 a month: 2%

6:01 p.m. EST, May 15, 2012|Greg Dawson, Working

An email pitching an interview with a sleep-disorder expert had me at, "Would you ever show up at work drunk?"

The line would be too clever by half if it weren't so on-point. My answer, based on personal experiencemany years ago, is that anyone that drunk would have such an epic hangover they couldn't get out of bed much less go to work.

Some Saturday fun from the Huffington Post...

Our favorites (but check them all out at HuffPo):

Cats sleep 13-14 hours a day!!! Ahhh, the life...

Dolphins can sleep with only "half" their brain - so they can still do stuff while sleeping. 

A desert snail can nap for 3 years! That is a sleeper.

An albatros can sleep while it flies...don't try this while driving.

Ants do in fact sleep (many think they don't). In a study of fire ants, worker ants actually have 253 sleep "episodes" (naps) per day, but each one only lasts 1.1 minute. 

The Herald reports that scientists are discovering more and more connections between lack of sleep and common behavior problems in children, such as ADHD, acting out, hyperactivity, and of course falling asleep in class. 

By Kathleen Doheny WebMD Health News

May 14, 2012 -- Do you remember exactly where you were last night? If you are a sleepwalker, maybe not.

Sleepwalking may be more common than experts have estimated, says a California psychiatrist.

"The numbers are very big," says researcher Maurice Ohayon, MD, PhD, DSc, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Stanford University Sleep Epidemiology Research Center.