Lack of sleep

Archive for January, 2009

In the previous part about indigestion as a cause for lack of sleep, we introduced the subject and analyzed who is most likely to suffer from indigestion, and listed the different types of indigestion, as physical, emotional and mental.

In the second part we will continue our discussion on how indigestion affects lack of sleep. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve read recently a short study (wish I remembered where it was) about the relation between lack of sleep, or insomnia, and the rich, vs. the poor.

Although common sense would seem to point out that the poor are mostly suffering from lack of sleep, due to their financial and living problems, the study showed that the situation might be just opposite to this.

It seems that the wealthier a person is, the better chances to become an insomniac.
Apparently it is remarkable how little complains one hears in hospitals from the poorer classes.
One of the results the study came to was that one reason for this poor vs rich shift is that poor are less haunted by such problems as overfeeding, inertia, idleness, self-absorption and ennui.