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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — The amount of sleep your kids get at night may have something to do with their weight.

A new study from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital reveals children who don’t get enough sleep — fewer than nine hours — may be more likely to be overweight.

Researchers looked at the data of 785 elementary school children, ages 9 to 12 — half were male, 81 percent were white, and 18 percent were overweight in sixth grade.

Results show overweight sixth-graders slept fewer hours than children who were not overweight. Most of the overweight sixth-graders were boys, whom the study revealed slept fewer hours.

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By Lindsay Braun, Ivanhoe Men’s health Correspondent

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — This year, for the first time ever, daylight savings time will end on the first Sunday of November instead of the last Sunday of October. While there may be many tempting ways to spend that extra hour on November 4th, experts agree the best way to fall back is into bed.

“What people typically do is say, ‘Oh I have an hour I can do more stuff,’ but as sleep specialists we’re saying, ‘Hold on why don’t you do less stuff and sleep to catch up,’“ Ralph Downey III, Ph.D., Chief of Sleep Medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., told Ivanhoe.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) –When your stress causes anxiety it can take its toll on your sleep.

A new report from Finland finds anxiety from stressful life situations is more likely to cause sleep problems for at least the first six months after the event. The study measured the effects of stressful events such as death or illness in the family, divorce, financial difficulty, and violence. Participants’ risk of anxiety was measured at the beginning of the study.

Results show being at risk for anxiety and having a negative life event were strongly linked to sleep problems. Men at risk for anxiety had sleep disturbance odds 3.11 times higher if they had a severe life event within six months. Those not at risk for anxiety had odds of 1.13 for sleeping problems. And for men and women at risk for anxiety the odds ratio for sleep disturbance up to six months after divorce was 2.05 compared to 1.47 for those not at risk for anxiety.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – There may finally be an explanation for the pain fibromyalgia patients feel.

A new report from the United Kingdom finds the unexplained pain is caused by a mismatch between sensory and motor systems.

Researchers asked 29 patients to look at the reflection of one of their arms while they moved the other one - which was hidden behind the mirror - in a different direction. This created a mismatch between what the brain sees through sensory input and what it feels through the motor system.

26 of the patients said they felt a transient increase in pain, temperature change, or heaviness in their hidden limb – all symptoms of a “flare up” of their condition. Researchers say this suggests a mismatch between sensory and motor neurons could cause fibromyalgia.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — If you’ve ever had a sleep test, you know it means attaching lots of scientific sensors to your body. Getting to sleep with that amount of hardware affixed to your personal software, however, can be a challenge.

Now, researchers in Texas report they may have the answer: a new infrared device to can measure heat signals expired from the mouth or nostrils of sleeping patients from across the room. The device performed well in an initial study on 13 men and women without known sleep apnea.

Overall, the infrared device identified 22 sleep-related events, compared with 22 events detected when the participants were tested with a conventional device to measure expired heat and 19 events when they were tested using a device to measure nasal pressure.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Adjusting our external clocks to account for daylight savings time (DST) is easy. Adjusting our internal clocks, however, may not be so simple.

According to German researchers who conducted two studies on the effects of the biannual time change on natural circadian rhythms, “springing forward” in the spring has detrimental effects, while “falling back” in the autumn puts people back on track.

In the first study, the researchers followed 55,000 people in Central Europe to see how their sleeping patterns were affected by daylight savings time. Assessments were made during the participant’s free days to find out how they would naturally sleep if they didn’t have to arise at a certain hour.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — A surgical procedure that’s been around since 1981 really can help people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) get a better night’s rest.

Researchers who followed OSA patients for seven years found uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, or UPPP, reduced the number of times people stopped breathing during the night by about 50 percent. In about a quarter to a third of the patients, OSA disappeared entirely.

The surgery involves removing some of the tissue in the mouth and at the back of the throat to help keep the airways open. Patients with OSA typically have extra tissue that collapses when they sleep, thus causing brief awakenings during the night called apneas. These brief awakenings lead to poor sleep and put people at risk for a host of other problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Too little sleep can have a significant effect on your emotions, and now, new research gives evidence to prove it.

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Medical School embarked on the first neural study into what exactly happens to a person’s “emotional brain” when he or she is sleep-deprived. Researchers used functioning magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study 26 people ages 18 to 30. Those assigned to the sleep-deprived group stayed awake for day one, night one and day two. Those assigned to a control group stayed awake both days, but slept normally during the night.

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