Sleep: In the News

Here are some articles I thought were share-worthy:

The Power of Rest (still reading) also discusses the 1990 study referenced in the following article.  It was not all that long ago in human history in which we slept in 2 4 hour chunks instead of 8 hours in one block and we revert to this behavior in lightless environments.  Is middle of the night insomnia a fallacy and we are engineered to wake and then we stress ourselves out making it into a problem?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Fragmented sleep, my personal nemesis, right?  Well I guess caffeine for morning people causes even greater fragmented sleep that in night owls.  Caffeine isn't the only fragmented sleep maker though, so have hope night owls that you too can blame your poor sleep on something.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=caffeine-disrupts-sleep-f

Sleeping pills as bad a cigarettes?  I am so glad I don't take these.  If you are taking hypnotic sleeping pills (the kind that put you to sleep) you HAVE to read this:

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20120227/sleeping-pills-called-as-risky-as-cigarettes

And this is Loralyn Horine, reporting the news you can use :p