More time with bedding 'needed for sleepy teens'
Published: 09 November 2009
Parents need to ensure their children have a lot of time with their bedding and bed linen if they exhibit signs of fatigue in class or at home, it is asserted.
Parents need to ensure their children have a lot of time with their bedding and bed linen if they exhibit signs of fatigue in class or at home, it is asserted.Sleep does not come naturally to many children growing up in the modern world, a leading specialist in rest from Canada has stressed.
Speaking to the Vancouver Sun, professor at Brown University and paediatric sleep expert Dr Judith Owens said that while the extreme sign of little time with bedding is when a child falls asleep during school, the real problems can change their personality, making them moody or angry in the long run.
She underlined that it can also lead to continuing health problems, adding: "So people who are sleep-deprived feel hungrier. They eat more. They eat higher-calorie foods. They eat higher carbohydrate and fat-content foods. And they may also be too tired to exercise."
Dr Owens added that if your son or daughter is able to wake up "bright-eyed" and "bushy-tailed" with a smile and without the need for an alarm clock, they will have the best chance of absorbing information and will prove to grow up stronger and more productive.
West Virginian children were recently revealed to be having the worst quality of sleep in the US by a recent poll by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which found that 19 per cent of the population reportedly did not have a single night of unbroken or comfortable sleep under the duvet cover.
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