Sleeping disorders

The important of a good sleep is that your body rests and gets the energy for the next day. It also promotes our physical and emotional health. When we don’t get enough hours of sleep our body start feeling tired, we are more susceptible to mood swings and we reduce the ability to handle stress. The meaning of sleep disorders by (Medicine, 2013) is:  problems with sleeping, including trouble falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at the wrong times, too much sleep, or abnormal behaviors during sleep. Some effects of a bad sleep can be:

1.  Decreased optimism and sociability.  Whether it’s the effort we have to put into staying awake or other factors, sleep deprivation makes us less hopeful and less friendly. (CHRISTY MATTA, 2013)

2.  Increased resting blood pressure.  Several studies have found that sleep deprivation leads to increased blood pressure (Fujikawa et al., 2009) and even half a night of sleep loss has been reported to increase blood pressure in people with hypertension or pre-hypertension (Lusardi et al., 1996).

3. Increased food consumption and appetite.  Research indicates that acute sleep loss enhances pleasure response processing in the brain underlying the drive to consume food (Benedict et al., 2012).  The researchers raise the question of whether chronic sleep deprivation is linked to rising levels of obesity.

4.  Increased risk of cardiac morbidity.  A number of factors can lead to an increased risk of heart attacks, and sleep deprivation is one of them.  During experimental sleep deprivation of healthy participants, increases in inflammation associated with the future development of cardiovascular disease occurred. (CHRISTY MATTA, 2013)

How to prevent it sleep problems:

• Try to go to sleep at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning. (Chanin, 2012)
• Avoid caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol late in the day. Caffeine and nicotine are stimulants that can keep you from falling asleep. Alcohol can cause waking in the night and interferes with sleep quality. (Chanin, 2012)
• Get regular exercise. (Chanin, 2012)
• Don't eat a heavy meal late in the day. (Chanin, 2012)
• Make your bedroom comfortable. Be sure that it is dark, quiet, and not too warm or too cold. (Chanin, 2012)
• If you can't fall asleep and don't feel drowsy, get up and read or do something that is not overly stimulating until you feel sleepy. (Chanin, 2012)
• If you have trouble lying awake worrying about things, try making a to-do list before you go to bed. This may help you to avoid focusing on those worries overnight. (Chanin, 2012) 

Glossary

•   Aggressive:  Inclined to behave in an actively hostile fashion.
•   Alert: able to think clearly.
• Amused:  to keep pleasantly occupied; entertain; divert.
• Blinking: closing and opening the eyes quickly.
• Captivating: very interesting.
• Chronically: continuing for a long time; constantly recurring.
• Confused: feeling or exhibiting an inability to understand; bewildered; perplexed.
• Dim: badly illuminated.
• Droop: to lose courage; become dejected.
• Enthusiastic: filled with or motivated by enthusiasm; fanatical; keen.
• Hormones: chemical substances in the body.
• Irritable: easily and quickly annoyed.
• Naps: to sleep for a short while.
• Out of sync: a completely different schedule.
• Playful: full of high spirits and fun.
• Respectful: full of, showing, or giving respect.
•  Shocked: to experience or cause to experience extreme horror, disgust, surprise.
• Snore: to breathe through the mouth and nose while asleep with snorting sounds caused by vibrations of the soft palate.
• Subtle: not immediately obvious or comprehensible.
• Surge:  a boost, increase.
• Unhappy: not joyful; sad or depressed.
• Waves of sleepiness: strong feeling of fatigue, tiredness.

Grammar

Present unreal conditionals

This sentence has two clauses: the if-clause, which states the condition, and the result clause, which state the result. Use the present unreal conditionals to talk about something that is impossible, untrue, or imagined.

Use would + base form of the verb in the main clause to describe a definite result; and 

might or could to describe a possible result.

Bibliography

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Fujikawa T., Tochikubo O., Kura N., & Umemura S. (2009). Factors related to elevated 24-h blood pressure in young adults. Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 31(8), 705-712.

Lusardi P., Mugellini A., Preti P., Zoppi A., Derosa G., Fogari R. Effects of a restricted sleep regimen on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in normotensive subjects. Am J Hypertension. 1996;9:503–5.

Benedict C., Brooks S. J., O’Daly O. G., Almèn M. S., Morell A., Åberg K., … & Schiöth H. B. (2012). Acute sleep deprivation enhances the brain’s response to hedonic food stimuli: an fMRI study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 97(3), E443-E447.

CHRISTY MATTA, M. (2013, july 20). Psych Central. Retrieved from 8 Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Your Health: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/02/13/8-effects-of-sleep-deprivation-on-your-health/

Medicine, U. N. (2013, march 22). MedlinePlus. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000800.htm

Chanin, L. R. (2012, July 28). WebMD: Better information. Better health. Retrieved from Sleep Disorders Health Center: http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/preventing-sleep-problems