Naps
- EntertainmentYahoo Life UK
Healthier You: How To Improve Your Sleep
GP Dr Chris George explains how to optimize your sleep, from sticking to a rigid routine, avoiding long naps, and improving your sleep environment from your mattress to your blinds.
- NewsHello Giggles
A bar just for naps now exists, and sign us up, please
Naps are a pretty polarizing topic. You either love them or avoid them and their grogginess-inducing qualities. For the nap lovers who…
- HealthAOL
Napping for an hour may boost brain power
Want to boost your brain function, but aren't big on broccoli? Take a nap instead! Findings from a new study suggest napping for an hour in the afternoon may give older adults a mental boost, helping improve memory and thinking skills.
1-min read - NewsMarie-Claire Dorking
Could Napping Be The Secret To A Better Memory?
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) led by Sara Mednick, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California-Riverside, found that the benefits of sleep can be reaped not just from your night-time sleep, but from a good day-time nap too. If ever there was a reason to take a day time disco nap? According to Sara Mednick, the nap group performed 40 per cent better because of the increased rapid eye movement time they got thanks to
- NewsMarie-Claire Dorking
Bad News Nap Lovers, Taking Long Naps Could Be Bad For Your Health
Whether it’s a quick disco nap before a night out, a sneaky bit of shut-eye on the commute to work or a Sunday afternoon snooze-fest, naps are the absolute best. New research on sleep habits by the American College of Cardiology has revealed that long naps are actually bad for our health.
- LifestyleAOL
Sleeping twice a day is better for you
Anthropologists have discovered we didn't used to sleep for eight hours straight and we shouldn't either. See also: Top tips for a good night's sleep as you get older See also: How to loose weight when you sleep The post-lunch
