<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/660fa73c-f2cd-4c68-9d7c-6cb1fa1f6a9a/CAACE3A0-ECF4-481D-A82A-AF0C0F4D6C5B/" 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://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070212_snooze_sense.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070212_snooze_sense.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070212_snooze_sense.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>It might be smart to let your heavy eyelids carry you into dreamland during waking hours, because a new study finds that half-hour siestas can boost <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/top_10_amazing_heart_facts.html" set="yes">heart health</A> and help prevent deadly cardiovascular disease. </SPAN></p> <P></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Past studies have indicated that in countries where midday <A href="http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070109_sleep.html">naps</A> are common, as in the Mediterranean and parts of Latin America, rates of death from <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051226_heart_attacks.html" set="yes">heart disease</A> are lower than the average rates in non-napping regions.</SPAN></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://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070212_snooze_sense.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The authors suggest <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060323_sleep_tips.html">naps</A> could boost heart health via <A href="http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_051122.html">stress</A> reduction. Past studies have linked <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061122_job_stress.html" set="yes">job stress</A> with myriad health ailments, including heart disease, <A href="http://www.livescience.com/interplayer/flu/">flu virus</A>, <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051208_health_report.html" set="yes">high blood pressure</A> and <A href="http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060818_tears_diabetes.html">diabetes</A>. </SPAN></p> <P></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>The fact that naps gave a heightened benefit to working men—who likely face <A href="http://www.livescience.com/othernews/061031_office_bully.html" set="yes">job-related stress</A>—compared with non-working men supports the stress-reduction link, they say in their study published in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal <I>Archives of Internal Medicine</I>.</SPAN></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/CAACE3A0-ECF4-481D-A82A-AF0C0F4D6C5B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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