Diet, environment determine sleep needs
2nd Nov 2005, 16:59 GMT
An extensive research analysis concludes that environment and diet largely determine sleep needs. The analysis shows that meat-eating species sleep the most and grazing animals the least. Sleep amounts range from 20 hours in the little brown bat to only two hours in the horse. Animals that have less sleep do not appear to make up for this by sleeping more deeply.
Diet, environment determine sleep needs related news:
- Hacker's Diet: How to Hack Your Own Body and Get in Shape the Techie Way — Lockergnome's Tech News Watch
- Shedding fresh light on teen sleep deficits — Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness
- Sleep and Athletic Performance — Beat the Blues
- Introducing the Hacker's Diet, a real techie way to get slim — digg / science
- Help For The Sleep Deprived — iVillage Video News: Practical Advice from Good Housekeeping
- Nature on Sleep — Boing Boing
- Silent reflux may be the cause of sleep disturbances in patients with unexplained sleep disorders — News-Medical News Feed
- New Diet Drug Keeps Pounds Off — iVillage Video News: Your Health, Your Home
- The Hacker’s Diet: How to Hack Your Own Body and Get in Shape the Techie Way — Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech
- More reasons to catch that power nap... — IOL: A Step Beyond
Latest news from Science Blog -:
- Some animals won't adapt to climate change
- NASA Turns to Past to Help Develop the Engines of the Future
- Bridging neurons, electronics with carbon nanotubes
- Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge
- Ah-One, Ah-Two, Ah-Three
- Sperm proteome gives 'tantalising glimpse' towards the origin of sex
- Young children don't believe everything they hear
- Little public money actually spent on health care to undocumented immigrants
- The Milky Way shaped life on Earth
- Higher red meat intake ups breast cancer risk