This report and study is not new news to me and I would bet that you would agree that it make sense that losing sleep and not sleeping is really unhealthy.

Men have an increased risk of premature death if they have chronic insomnia along with a short sleep duration, researchers here said.

In a longitudinal study of more than 1,700 men and women followed for more than 10 years, men with insomnia and short sleep duration were almost five times more likely to die than men who had normal sleep, said Alexandros N. Vgontzas, M.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Sleep Research Center at Penn State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.

Dr. Vgontzas reported the findings at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

“Until now, most studies had failed to show that insomnia, like sleep apnea, is associated with medical morbidity and mortality,” said Dr. Vgontzas. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Center for Disease Control is reporting that Measles Cases are at the highest rate in over 10 years. Most of the reason for the really high rate of Measles outbreaks is because of the fear of Autism from kids getting the

More measles cases have been reported in the United States since Jan. 1, 2008 than during the same period in any year since 1996, according to a report released today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Measles Results for 2008

Between January 1 and July 31, 2008, 131 cases were reported to CDC′s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). At least fifteen patients, including four children younger than 15 months of age, were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. Read the rest of this entry »

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Biggest Loser Special Edition started last night, apparently, we knew nothing about it until it was on even. The new format of the special edition version of the Biggest Loser is tow hours where the first hour is the two teams working with our old favorites of Jillian and Bob as trainers and going through the regular paces of great quality eating and diet coupled with huge amounts of exercise. The second hour of the show is the two teams back at home where they try to continue losing weight until the final bit of the show where the competition between the two teams is based on percentage of weight lost over five months with the winning team taking home 50,000 dollars.

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Looking for last nights finale of Season 4 and my review of it? Then go to the Season 4 Biggest Loser Finale Page

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This week, the first week the two teams were the Muha family from Florida and the Samuels family from Atlanta. The two teams had one fitness competition where the family of three had to carry a giant ice cream sundae a long distance in the shortest amount of time, was not really exciting but anyway the Muha family won.
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