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	The Science of Sleep

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2-15-2008 11:35 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/88b1e7bb-9bca-43ec-a086-00488bb2827c/029718BE-FFF8-45ED-9223-B3592939EB3D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><B>Shakespeare waxed lyrical about it, and not getting enough of it remains a favourite national gripe. <P>But it is only relatively recently we have started to understand how sleep impacts upon our health, from where we do it to how we do it. </P></B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/222C2483-4459-4818-BC21-E9601961C412" alt="Sleeping woman" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><P>Latest research suggests that those who live under a flight path - or indeed share their bed with a heavy snorer - may suffer from raised blood pressure as a result. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><P>Yet sleep, we have increasingly come to realise, doesn't mean we turn off for the night when we turn off the light. Parts of our brain remain incredibly active, and indeed alert to potential dangers in the world outside and regulate our body accordingly, if necessary telling us to wake up. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><table background="" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><DIV>SLEEP FACTS </DIV><DIV><DIV>We spend a third of our lives on it</DIV><DIV>UK average is 7.75 hours per night</DIV><DIV>Napoleon and Margaret Thatcher averaged four hours a night</DIV><DIV>We conserve around 115 calories while we sleep</DIV><DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV><IMG height="1" hspace="0" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif" width="203" vspace="2" border="0" /><BR /></DIV><DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/profiler/">BBC sleep profiler</A></DIV></DIV></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7243141.stm"><P>"In any event there is no optimum number of hours, it's whatever you need to be alert the next day." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/029718BE-FFF8-45ED-9223-B3592939EB3D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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