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Today's Health/Excercise Tip:Doctor-Recommended Tips to Get More SleepYou don't have enough time to work, shop or even eat. What to do? Steal an hour or two from sleep?
A lot of Americans do. According to the 2009 National Sleep Foundation Poll, 20% of them get less than 6 hours of shut-eye a night, an increase from 13% in 2001.
Plus, some just can't seem to sleep – even when they have time: 26% of women have trouble sleeping several nights a week compared to only 16% of men.
Too many sleepless nights are far more dangerous than an occasional grouchy mood: It can undermine physical and mental health too.
Check out these 7 reasons to make sleeping a priority:
1. You'll be less accident-prone.
"The immediate risk of a bad night's sleep is a heightened risk of auto or work accidents," says Gary Richardson, M.D., a senior research physician at Henry Ford Sleep Disorders and Research Center in Detroit.
A 2010 study at the University of Bologna, Italy, found that teenage drivers were twice as likely to have a crash when they were sleepy or hadn't slept well.
"When you have had relatively little sleep – like 4 hours of sleep instead of 8 – you can no longer do more than one task at a time," Richardson says. Multi-tasking is a necessity when you're behind the wheel.
The cure is obvious: Don't drive when you're sleep deprived – and if you get sleepy, pull over and nap.2. You'll decrease your risk of diabetes.
"Not getting enough sleep impairs metabolic processes, disrupting the regulation of glucose levels," says James Wyatt, Ph.D., director of the Sleep Disorders Service and Research Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
The link was first noted in a 1999 University of Chicago study: Half of 27 healthy adults got less than 6.5 hours a sleep for 8 days; the other half got 7.5 to 8.5 hours of sleep, a normal amount.
The deprived half produced an average of 50% more insulin and their sensitivity to the hormone was 40% lower than the sleep-sated group.
"The sleep-deprived looked like they were pre-diabetic, " Richardson says.
3. You won't be as hungry.
Too little sleep also messes with appetite-related hormones leptin and ghrelin.
"Sleep deprivation causes leptin levels to fall so our appetite rises," Richardson explains. "And ghrelin levels rise."
The result? You're hungrier.
Unfortunately, when we're sleep-deprived, we eat more sugary, salty, high-carb foods like pancakes and sweet-rolls, Richardson says."Just follow medical interns after their shifts and watch what they eat," he says. "Rarely do they opt for something healthy."
4. Your memory will be sharper.
"Your ability to learn tasks, and retain and process memory are boosted during sleep," Wyatt says. Plus, a good night's sleep makes you more efficient at learning and remembering things during daylight hours.
So when you're sleep-deprived, education takes a double hit: You don't learn as well during the day or consolidate what you did manage to absorb at night.
5. You'll be happier.
According to a 2005 University of Texas study, people with insomnia are 10 times more likely to be depressed and anxious.
"If you're not getting good rest, you can be irritable and have more depression," says Meena Khan, M.D., a sleep medicine expert at the Sleep Disorders Center, Ohio University Medical Center in Columbus.
In fact, a 2009 study at London's Goldsmiths College found a link between sleep problems in children and later depression.
And another 2009 study at Stavanger University Hospital in Norway found that 60% of new mothers were sleep deprived and 16.5% were depressed. Of course, that's hardly news to any new mom taking care of a fussy baby.
6. You'll boost your immune system.
When you're sick, the immune system increases your need for sleep to help it battle and recover from infection, Wyatt says.
So "when you're sleep-deprived, your immune system doesn't have the resources it needs to fully fight off infections," leaving you vulnerable to illness, he says.
A 2003 study at the Université Laval in Canada drives home the point: When researchers tested the blood of insomniacs, they found fewer infection-fighting cells than in good sleepers.
7. You'll have a healthier heart.
"People who chronically sleep less than five hours have more cardiac problems and higher blood pressure," Khan says.Khan's statement is backed by a large 2007 five-year study at Warwick Medical School in Coventry, England. Researchers found that women who typically slept 6 hours a night were 42% more likely to develop high blood pressure than those who slept 7 hours.
Tips to Get More Shut-Eye
Now that you know how crucial sleep is for your long-term health, here are doctor-recommended tips for squeezing more sleep into your life:
1. Acknowledge your sleep debt.
You won't get more shut-eye unless you know how sleep deprived you are, Richardson says.
How to tell? Here's a test:
"If you sit down during the day for a quiet moment to read, do research or sit in a darkened room and you can't stay awake, you're sleep deprived," Richardson says.
2. Nap.
If your problem is finding time to sleep, look for blank spots in your schedule to fill with short snoozes, Richardson suggests.
Night isn't the only time to sleep, he says. "Every bit adds to the tank" and naps can be a powerful way to increase total sleep time. Consider taking them during lunchtime or early evening instead of watching TV.
But if insomnia is your problem, nix napping. They'll interfere with your body's nighttime clock.
3. Exercise.
A workout "can promote sleep, especially if done in late afternoon or early evening," Khan says.
Exercise warms your body, which in turn leads to a steeper fall in your core body temperature as you sleep. That inner cool leads to deeper sleep. 4. Share nocturnal tasks with your spouse.
Who always wakes up at night when the baby starts to bawl?
If it's always you, give yourself a well-deserved rest and alternate nighttime feedings or nightmare soothing with Dad.
5. Spread work and chores through the week.
You can't cheat on sleep during the week and catch up on weekends, Richardson says. The body can't doesn't work that way.
So try to spread work and family chores across seven days "so that you're not massively sleep deprived on weekdays with the hope of trying to catch up on weekends," Wyatt says. He and his colleagues just completed a study on sleep recovery.
Their research shows that it takes longer than you'd expect to recover from sleep loss. For example, if you're chronically sleep-deprived but try to catch up with one 10-hour sleep on Saturday, you'll scamper through the first 5-6 hours of work and crash afterward because accumulated fatigue will undercut your performance.
6. Keep a regular sleep schedule.
Your body is regulated by an internal clock: Confuse it and it's tough to sleep. So set non-negotiable lights-off and waking times every day and stick to them.
"The circadian system will help you stay awake during the day and sleep at night better, if you have a regular sleep-wake schedule," Wyatt says.
7. Don't turn your bedroom into an office or cafe.
The more you associate your bedroom with sleep, the easier it will be to fall asleep there. So train your brain.
"Devote time in bed to sleeping, not reading, watching TV, Web surfing or eating," Wyatt says.8. Don't go to bed hungry.
This isn't an excuse to blow your diet. In fact, too much heavy food at bedtime will keep you wide awake.
But a light snack like an oatmeal cookie and milk or half a small turkey sandwich will calm your hunger pangs and let you fall asleep.
"Hunger is a competing drive," Wyatt says. "It fights sleepiness."
And Now, Hair Wars!
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SAN FRANCISCO - The lawyers in the landmark federal trial over the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban may have to check their dazzling oratory at the courtroom door during next week's closing arguments.
The presiding judge wants them to answer 39 questions before he delivers his verdict.
Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker has already heard 12 days of testimony in the civil rights case, which is expected to eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
Walker has absorbed the opposing attorneys' written summaries and amassed a pile of competing briefs from outside interest groups on the limits of federalism and individual freedom.
Now, after a four-and-a-half- month hiatus, he is scheduled on Wednesday to wrap up the trial. Last week, he distilled his thinking about the case to a list of questions: 12 each to lawyers representing gay rights advocates and the ban's sponsors, and another 15 he wants both sides to address before he later rules.
From former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who will be arguing on behalf of two same-sex couples, Walker wants to know what empirical proof there is that allowing gay men and lesbians to marry would reduce discrimination against them.
The judge expects to hear, too, whether he can find that withholding marriage from gays constitutes unlawful discrimination if voters "genuinely but without evidence" believed there were legitimate reasons to limit marriage to a man and a woman.
His questions for Charles Cooper, a former Justice Department lawyer representing the ban's sponsors, are equally precise.
What evidence have they produced to support their claim that same-sex marriage would have negative consequences to the institution of marriage? Conversely, how does denying marriage to gays and lesbians improve the odds that children born in California will be raised by a married mom and dad?
Sharp inquiry "is very much typical of this judge," observed Olson, who frequently was interrupted by Walker during his opening statement in January. "He has done his homework, he is very much involved in this case."
"It just shows the judge is really grappling with the issues," agreed James Campbell, another lawyer for the coalition of religious and conservative groups that put Proposition 8 on the November 2008 ballot.
Both lawyers said they found the judge's punch list to be evenhanded and do not get a sense from it how he is leaning.
The veteran jurist, a Republican appointee, has indicated he does not plan to rule from the bench. Lawyers say they are preparing for him to hand down his ruling within weeks after the closing arguments.
Walker is being asked to overturn the 2008 ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriages in California five months after the state Supreme Court legalized it and after an estimated 18,000 couples from around the nation had tied the knot.
The plaintiffs also are seeking an injunction that would prohibit the state from enforcing the measure and immediately allow gay marriage to resume in the state. They maintain that preventing gays from getting married violates their civil rights and should be declared unconstitutional in the same way that laws against interracial marriage were.
The case has garnered national attention in part because of the unusual team that brought the lawsuit on behalf of the two California couples. Olson, a conservative who represented George Bush in the disputed 2000 presidential election, has joined with David Boies, the liberal trial lawyer who represented Vice President Al Gore.
In an unusual move, the original defendants, Attorney General Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, refused to support Proposition 8 in court.
That has left the work of defending the law to Protect Marriage, the group that successfully sponsored it. The group's lawyers argue gay marriage is an experiment with unknown social consequences that should be left to voters to accept or reject.
Currently, same-sex couples can only legally wed in Massachusetts, Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C.
To the surprise of both sides, Walker elected to hold a trial with live testimony instead of settling the matter through written briefs. Academic experts took the witness stand to discuss topics ranging from the fitness of gay parents and religious views on homosexuality to the historical meaning of marriage and the political influence of the gay rights movement.
Olson and Boies called 17 witnesses compared to two called by Cooper's defense team. The lopsided count has led gay rights supporters to predict the judge will have an easy time striking down the gay marriage ban.
Defense attorneys, meanwhile, have openly complained that they thought Walker's rulings before and during the trial favored the plaintiffs.
"The problem with the defendant's case was not the defendant's lawyers, it was the fact that there is simply no support for the central propositions they were trying to identify," Boies said.
Andy Pugno, a lawyer who served on the Protect Marriage executive committee, acknowledged that the ban's backers faced an uphill battle in addressing one of the key questions that preoccupied Walker - whether there was any proof that sanctioning same-sex marriage harms traditional heterosexual unions.
"The difficulty with that question is it's asking the defense to speculate about a harm that is likely but would occur only if we were to experiment with redefining marriage," Pugno said. "It's hard to disprove something that hasn't happened yet."
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