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22-06-2010
Good sleep is essential for you to be at your best throughout the day. It's also essential to your overall health and wellbeing, and the negative effects of repeatedly poor sleep can become apparent very quickly. Therefore it’s in all of our interests...
Tags: memory foam mattress, sleep tips, good sleep
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: 5 Easy Tips for Good Sleep
06-07-2010
With the growth of memory foam mattresses in recent years, there are many enduring myths about the material that keep on being repeated, often by retailers of the memory foam products themselves.Here’s the Ergoflex guide to some of the most commonly...
Tags: memory foam mattress, memory foam, mattresses, beds, NASA
Category: Memory Foam Technology
Read: 5 Memory Foam Mattress Myths
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
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
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
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
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
03-02-2010
The brain forms and strengthens memories during periods of rest as well as sleep, according to the results of new US study published this week. The New York University research, lead by Dr. Lila Davachi, looked at the memory recall performance of volunteers...
Tags: sleep memory, memory foam mattress, mattresses
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Memory boosted by rest - study
01-07-2010
Memory foam toppers are a popular mattress accessory. Created from a single piece of memory foam, toppers are designed to be laid on a regular non-memory foam mattress to provide an extra level of comfort. Like all products, memory foam toppers come in...
Tags: memory foam toppers, topper, memory foam mattress, mattresses
Category: Memory Foam Technology
Read: Memory foam toppers
04-06-2010
Everyone knows how caffeine and alcohol can impact on sleep quality, but what about drinks that you can take before bedtime, and ones that even promote better sleep?The selection of herbal and botanical teas available in supermarkets has grown massively...
Tags: drink, drinks, memory foam mattress, caffeine, tea, coffee, alcohol
Category: Ergo Flex News
Read: Pre-bedtime drinks
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
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
25-02-2010
New research into early brain development may shed further light on the importance of sleep for forming memory, as well as the wider reasons why we sleep and why sleep deprivation is so harmful. A team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,...
Tags: sleep memory, memory foam, mattress, memory foam mattress
Category: Sleep Research
Read: Study strengthens sleep memory link
14-08-2009
Your mattress is one of the most important household purchases that you'll make. Making the wrong mattress choice means you’ll be living with the negative effects for years, whereas a carefully chosen mattress that meets your needs will provide...
Tags: memory foam mattress, mattresses, memory foam, mattress
Category: Memory Foam Mattresses
Read: Why choose a memory foam mattress?
