Tag: Sleep,
15-06-2010
Light pollution is one of the most common disturbers of sleep, and its powerful physiological effects also make it one of the most frustrating whenever experienced. In short, the body is designed to be awake and alert when it experiences light, so to...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, light, light pollution
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: Beating Light Pollution
22-07-2010
Cherry juice could be the key to a good night’s sleep, a new US study has found. According to researchers from the University of Rochester in New York, drinking a glass of the unsweetened juice in the morning and evening can result in longer sleep....
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, cherry juice, melatonin
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Cherry juice holds key to sleep?
15-07-2010
While sleep disruptions and disorders are usually straight-forward to identify, sometimes your sleep can be unsettled for reasons that you can’t fathom. Subtle changes in your lifestyle or working day that might be all but imperceptible can often...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, disturbed sleep
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Dealing with unknown sleep disturbances
02-09-2010
An active lifestyle is an effective way to maintain the optimum level of health for both body and mind. Endorphins are released into the bloodstream, carrying with them a supply of happiness. Exercise also improves low self-esteem as we actively target...
Tags: Memory foam mattress, sleep, exercise
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Dodging Discomfort
09-06-2010
Dreams are thoughts, images, feelings and sounds that are experienced during sleep. Occurring during REM stage sleep, it is thought that dreams can make up around a quarter of a typical night’s sleep – taking up around two hours. Individual...
Tags: dreams, dreaming, sleep, memory, memory foam mattress, memory foam mattresses
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: Dreams and Sleeping
27-07-2010
Dreams might be one step closer to being solved as a scientific entity, if newly published research from Australia is proven correct. A research team from the University of South Australia has claimed following their studies that dreams play a vital role...
Tags: dreams, dream, dreaming, sleep, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Dreams theory revealed - study
25-06-2010
Even if you’ve got good sleep hygiene sometimes you need help to get to sleep. In these cases it’s worth looking at some of the sleep aid products on the market, as there are many effective items available.Tackling the source of a disturbance...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, disturbed sleep
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: Effective Sleep Aid Products
04-03-2010
Exercising is rightly regarded as one of the key ways to achieve wellbeing and maintain a healthy lifestyle, however its relationship with sleep is perhaps more complex than most people realise.A common misconception with regards to exercising and sleep...
Tags: sleep, exercise, memory foam mattress, memory foam mattresses
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Exercise and sleep
31-08-2010
Our dreams can have a profound effect upon our waking moments, as buried emotions are spontaneously unearthed as fluctuating, vivid scenes that are pieced together in a series of mismatched realms. Dreams have the ability to either lift us up into heavenly...
Tags: Memory foam mattress,dreams, sleep, dream catcher
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Filtered Dreaming
17-06-2010
Most of us, even the deepest sleepers, will wake up for brief periods during the night without it affecting our overall sleep quality or well-rested feeling in the morning. Generally, these incidents last only for a few seconds at a time and are rarely...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, disturbed sleep
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: How to handle disturbed sleep
02-09-2010
Research has been conducted into the association between diet and sleep habits in teenagers. Brigham and Women’s Hospital together with Bet Israel Deaconness Medical Centre, both based in Boston found that teenagers who sleep less than the recommended...
Tags: Sleep, teenagers, diet
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Lack of Sleep Linked with Teenager’s Poor Diets-Study
24-03-2010
A North East high school has experienced a drop in absenteeism following the introduction of a later 10am start time, reports BBC. Monkseaton High School’s general absence rate has fallen by 8%, while levels of persistent absenteeism have dropped...
Tags: sleep, memory, memory foam mattress, memory foam mattresses
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Late start benefits teens
22-02-2010
The brain’s capacity to take in new information can be boosted by a daytime nap, suggests the results of a new US study revealed this week. The research is the latest in a long line of scientific investigations into the effects of napping, which...
Tags: sleep, nap, napping, memory foam mattress, memory
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Learner memory boosted by napping
16-02-2010
The health and wellbeing effects of getting the required amount of sleep are increasingly well documented, however taking the necessary time and effort to achieve good sleep is something that many of us don’t seem to be willing to do. The facts...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, memory mattress, foam mattress, mattresses, mattres, matress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Make time to sleep
19-08-2010
Although teenagers are renowned for sleeping longer, a new study has revealed that the seasons can affect how much sleep teenagers secure. The hormone melatonin, which gradually builds throughout the day and signals the onset of darkness to the body was...
Tags: Sleep, teenagers
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Natural light interferes with Teenage Sleep
05-08-2010
The degree to which external noise affects the quality of sleep was studied by a team of researchers at Hanyang University in South Korea. The experiment looked at different noise combinations and how often sleep was disturbed, as well as how the noise...
Tags: Sleep, Noise
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Noise Exposure Affects Quality Sleep
08-09-2010
A major new US study has revealed that people who regularly sleep for less than six hours a night are putting themselves at higher risk of diabetes and heart disease. The research by Warwick Medical School and the State University of New York showed a...
Tags: sleep, diabetes, sleep research, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Poor sleep raises diabetes risk – report
23-07-2010
Although Ergo Flex memory foam mattresses benefit everyone in their quest to combine sleep with ultimate comfort; the weightless feel enabled by billions of spherical shaped cells may specifically appeal to the pregnant form, whose expanding contours...
Tags: Pregnancy, Sleep, Memory foam matress
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Pregnancy Perfecting Sleep
05-08-2010
Natural light’s ability to dictate sleep quality may cause disturbances during seasonal changes, according to a new US investigation on teenagers’ sleep. The study, at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Centre in Troy,...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, light, dark
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Seasonal light changes impact sleep quality
17-03-2010
Schoolchildren in Scotland are being taught the value of a good night’s sleep with specialist lessons on how to wind down in the evening and get the sleep they need to perform well academically. The lessons, being run initially as a pilot in four...
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Category: Sleep Research
Read: Sleep counsellor helps pupils focus
16-07-2010
A new US study has found that good quality sleep promotes more effective ‘prospective memory’, that is, the capacity to remember to do something in the future. Sleep’s role in memory formation and consolidation has been the target of...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, memory
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Sleep helps ‘prospective memory’ – study
27-08-2010
The popular computer game, Guitar Hero has been used in a sleep study, as it requires complex motor skills that simulate the real-world effects of daily activities. Guitar Hero is a computer game that involves matching coloured bands across the screen...
Tags: Sleep, computer games
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Sleep Improves Guitar Hero Scores- Study
12-07-2010
Relaxation is the body’s way of winding down, and is therefore vital for everyone’s pre-sleep routine. When you’re relaxed you’re far more likely to get off to sleep quicker, as your body and mind is already in a receptive state...
Tags: sleep, memory foam mattress, relaxation, relaxing
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Sleep Tips – Relaxation
15-05-2010
Teenagers who regularly miss out on the required levels of sleep are affecting their daily performance in class and even damaging their cognitive abilities, says a new report. Activities such as working on computers, playing video games and texting on...
Tags: memory, sleep research, sleep, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Teens missing out on sleep
03-03-2010
The effects of daylight on the body’s internal clock is been well-documented in research, however a new US study has taken a direct approach to investigating the phenomenon in school children with results that back up the theory, reports Sciencenews.org....
Tags: sleep, light, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Test clarifies daylight’s sleep effects
10-08-2010
The Ergo Flex memory foam mattress is the ultimate support during pregnancy, allowing the mother-to-be to take full advantage of precious rest. The aches acquired throughout the day are relieved and extra weight is unloaded and absorbed by millions of...
Tags: Memory foam mattress, sleep, pregnancy, music
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Tranquil Tunes-Relaxing Music during Pregnancy
18-08-2010
With ageing comes an accumulation of life experience; the mind is influenced by a vast back-catalogue of memories that contain specific emotions and events, be they good or bad, which can reoccur in dreams or simply manifest as personal contemplations...
Tags: Memory foam matress, sleep, senior
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Twilight Years– Preserving Quality Sleep
29-07-2010
A US study has found that a good night’s sleep can improve the likelihood that a person will remember to do a list of tasks for the day ahead. The prospective memory, remembering ahead rather than the retrospective memory, remembering the past was...
Tags: Sleep, Memory
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Unbroken Sleep Key to Remembering Ahead
