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Recognizing Serious Sleep Disorders
2007-10-29 06:49:00
SOMETIMES one’s symptoms may indicate a serious sleep disorder. Chronic insomnia, which lasts more than a month, is often related to more serious problems, including depression. Chronic insomnia may also be a symptom of a serious physical ailment.Sleep ApneaSleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep. When apnea alternates with periods of rapid, heavy breathing (hyperapnea), they may be due to lack of oxygen in the brain, accumulation of acid in the blood, increased pressure on the brain stem, or heart failure. Apnea may be associated with such harmful conditions as irregularities in heartbeat, high blood pressure, and decreased contractile force of the heart muscle.Central apnea occurs when the brain’s respiratory control center doesn’t give the command to breathe regularly. With obstru ...
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Unconcious Mutterings- Week 247
2007-10-28 01:46:00
I say ... and you think ... ? Inaugural :: speechPledge :: vowString :: attachedTrot :: Basketball ----From the Globe TrottersFitness :: healthCinder :: dirtyEdge :: cliff31 :: age ---actually this number has no significance to meBlue :: seaLeather :: bagsThis is a great meme at Unconscious Mutterings whereby the participants are active in blog hopping and commenting. Plus the meme is fun in itself because the word cause you to reflect on many things past and present. The mind is a wonderful thing and when put to good use can come up with marvelous results.Come on, join us at Unconscious Mutterings! Looking forward to see you there.Related mutterings:Week 246Week 245Week 244 Week 243 Week 242 ...
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Dieting is a life long journey
2007-10-27 11:26:00
"Tough diets never last, but tough dieters do." - Mark Hollingsworth A diet that is any good for the whole being doesn't last for a couple of weeks or even a couple of months. It isn't just about getting into a new pair of pants or a new dress for a party or dinner. A diet is suppose to last our whole life. As they say, "You are what you eat."Every bite of food that we take in is part of our daily diet because it is our necessary intake of food. So we need to choose a diet that we will last and it must be one that will keep us healthy for the long haul. Dieting is a series of daily choices that ultimately will be measured in how much we weigh and, in some cases, how long we live. What we decide about our dietary options today will directly affect our dietary requirements five, ten, or twenty years from now. In other words, cheese cake today, bulges tomorrow!We must not try to cram a lifetime of good eating habit into one month. We need to choose eating habits that will last as long ...
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How much sleep do we need?
2007-10-26 05:57:00
A normal night’s sleep is most easily divided into two types: what is commonly called REM (rapid eye movement, or dream) sleep and non-REM (nondream) sleep. You can tell that a person is in REM sleep when the bulge of his eyeballs can be seen rapidly moving under his eyelids. So, what happens when we are regularly deprived (voluntarily or involuntarily) of these repeated cycles, thus creating a sleep debt? If we get fewer consecutive hours of sleep than we need, we won’t get as much of the last and longest REM sleep period, which is vital to mental health. If our sleep patterns become irregular, consisting of a series of naps, we often don’t get to the deep delta sleep that is necessary to mend our bodies. Those in serious debt suffer from shortened attention spans, memory and vocabulary loss, a lessened ability to think analytically, and diminished creativity. What triggers the body to demand sleep? A number of factors evidently combine to create a circadian (daily) rhythm, o ...
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Feast 166
2007-10-26 05:19:00
AppetizerName a great website you would recommend to others.OnlineCinema for movie lovers. SoupOn a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?1 or I can't remember any of it recently. SaladDid you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?I have 4 tortoises. I can't remember their names as that was more than 15 years ago. I have their photos though. They didn't die, they got too big for me to care for them. Main CourseIf you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?Hmm...not too sure about this one. Perhaps a weight loss machine one as I am trying to lose weight. I don;t trust any of those diet meals or pills though. DessertWhat is your favorite kind of hard candy?LollipopMeme from Friday's Feast ...
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World of Warcraft
2007-10-25 08:27:00
Onesome: World--Wide Web resources? Is there one particular area of your life, personal or professional, where you use the web as an informational resource? Knitting? Medical? Research?Research for my blog posts and to find other bloggers. Twosome: of-- the 168 hours in a given week, how much time do you spend on the computer? No, we're not looking to plan an intervention, just curious...About 35 hours a week. Threesome :Warcraft-- games? Poker games? Role playing games? Do you play games on your computer? Really? What kind of games?Use to play mahjong and card games (not with money but against computer).Meme from The Back Porch ...
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Change in Attitude
2007-10-24 07:00:00
Come join the photo meme at Wordless Wednesday which is available now daily! No requirement except to post a photo and perhaps go look at other participants photos too. They are really great. ...
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10 Useful Internet Sites
2007-10-23 10:38:00
1. WatchTower2. Wikipedia3. Google4. Blogger5. BlogCatalog6. OnlineCinema7. TheDailyMeme8. Digg9. Feedburner10. FeedjitMeme at Ten on Tuesday ...
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Sleep Debt and Sleep Disorder
2007-10-23 09:52:00
Millions of people are in a serious debt today. This "debt" has a major contributing factor to wrecking their cars, damaging their careers, and even ruining of marriages. Just what kind of debt are we talking about? The culprit is sleep debt. It can adversely affect their health and life span. It is a deficit that contributes to immune suppression, creating susceptibility to various infections. Conditions as different as diabetes, heart disease, and extreme obesity, as well as other health problems, have been linked to it. Yet, most victims are oblivious of this debt.Sleep debt develops when a person does not get the amount of healthful sleep needed for well-being. This can be caused by voluntary sleep deprivation resulting from a person’s life-style or by involuntary sleep deprivation because of illness.Medical researchers estimate that earth’s population is now getting, on average, an hour less sleep per night than what is needed. While this may seem slight, a nightly six-billio ...
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Health
2007-10-23 02:10:00
1. Do you take vitamins and if so, what?Spirulina 2. Do you make an effort to eat healthy, or you eat whatever you feel like eating?I eat what I feel like eating but sometimes health does not permit. I have eczema and can't take too much seafood nor diary products. 3. What two types of food do you have a hard time staying away from?Pizza and fried chicken. 4. What are two food items you refuse to eat?Liver and intestines. (In chinese dish called Bak Kut Teh) 5. Are you pleased with your daily diet or do you think it could be better?Should take more vegetables and fruits for sure.This meme is taken from Tuesday Twosome ...
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Curious as a Cat- Week 88
2007-10-22 07:27:00
1) What was the most powerful moment of silence you've ever experienced?When I told my husband to be at that time about my sad childhood experience. We sat in the dark for a while reflecting and pondering.2) What are friends for?To share experiences, moments, not having to impress and just being own self.3) What one school subject has turned out to be the least useful or worthwhile? Is that a surprise?Geography. I didn't have much interest in it. The teachers didn't make the subject interesting either. But I find that in the blogosphere, our world gets smaller and we meet folks from different parts of the world online. It helps to know a little about their country and background. I had to search the maps most of the time but at least, I am a little interested now.4) What kind of power do you want most?To fly.5) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one. Public Domain PhotoReminds me of the biblical passage that depic ...
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