Ever heard the saying, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise?" A recent survey found that 75 percent of people have trouble falling or staying asleep.
While short-lived sleep deprivation generally is nothing to worry about, chronic insomnia can contribute to health problems such as weight gain, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, attention and memory problems, depression, substance abuse, decreased reaction time, and a weakening of the immune system’s power, according to the Harvard Women’s Health Watch.
Clinical psychologist Henry Koehn will be teaching a class on sleep techniques at noon, Wednesday (June 11) at the Wellness Center. “You Snooze, You Win” is a health education class aimed at managing insomnia to lessen incidents of daytime sleepiness and fatigue. The class repeats a similar presentation held last year for Men's Health Week.
Koehn stressed the importance of good sleeping habits. “100,000 motor vehicle accidents a year have been linked to sleep deprivation, and 39 percent of people get less than seven hours of sleep a night,” he said.
Registration is encouraged. For more information, contact Phyllis Webb of the Wellness Center at 5-3559 or pwebb@lanl.gov.
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