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While it’s easy to rag on mainstream media for its painfully obvious bias, its leaving the heavy lifting of actual reporting to sites such as the one you’re now reading, and its seemingly endless supply of Trump Derangement Syndrome outbreaks, one must give credit where credit is due. When the MSM hits the hottest take of a hot story, it is nigh impossible to not stand back in awe of the pearls of great wisdom from on high with which it blesses us mere mortals. Such a moment came about the other day, when television station CW 39 in Houston saw fit to pass along this hitherto unknown and unsuspected of existing drop of wisdom:
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The Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC) published a new report today, titled Coffee and sleep in everyday lives , authored by Professor Renata Riha, from the Department of Sleep Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. It reviews the latest research into coffee s effect on sleep and suggests that while drinking coffee early in the day can help support alertness and concentration levels
1, especially when sleep patterns are disturbed; decreasing intake six hours before bedtime may help reduce its impact on sleep
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Coffee is largely consumed daily for the pleasure of its taste
3, as well as its beneficial effect on wakefulness and concentration (due to its caffeine content)
COVID Pandemic has Severely Disrupted Sleep, Increasing Stress, Medication Use by Iswarya on December 17, 2020 at 11:54 AM
Journal of Sleep Research.
The global pandemic s impact on daily routines extends to the bed, according to Profiles of sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Demographic, behavioural and psychological factors . The study was led by Principal Investigator Rébecca Robillard, an Assistant Professor and co-director of the Sleep Laboratory of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and Head Scientist in the Sleep Research Unit at The Royal Institute of Mental Health Research and published in the Journal of Sleep Research.
Dr. Robillard and her team, which was comprised of nearly two dozen scientists from across North America, conducted an online survey of 5,525 Canadian during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. She walked us through some of the study s most important findings.
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IMAGE: Principal Investigator Rébecca Robillard, an Assistant Professor and co-director of the Sleep Laboratory of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and Head Scientist in the Sleep Research. view more
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OTTAWA, ON The COVID-19 pandemic is seriously affecting the sleep habits of half of those surveyed in a new study from The Royal and the University of Ottawa, leading to further stress and anxiety plus further dependence on sleep medication.
The global pandemic s impact on daily routines extends to the bed, according to Profiles of sleep changes during the COVID?19 pandemic: Demographic, behavioural and psychological factors . The study was led by Principal Investigator Rébecca Robillard, an Assistant Professor and co-director of the Sleep Laboratory of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, and Head Scientist in the Sleep Research Unit at The Royal Institute of Mental Health Research and publish