June 11, 2015

It’s no surprise that the dreams you remember are usually the strangest ones. Researchers have discovered that the longer you sleep, the weirder your dreams are. Early evening dreaming usually involves things you read or saw that day. Later, the brain is blending memories of experiences that can make for some strange combinations. Source Link

That beer belly could literally be the death of you. A long-term study found that people with a big belly were more than twice as likely to die of sudden cardiac death, when the heart begins to beat erratically and shuts down blood flow to the brain. Sudden cardiac death is the cause of about half of all heart-related deaths. Source Link

If you read to relax before bedtime, you may want to make it a printed book and not an e-reader. A study compared results for people who used e-readers versus books for nighttime reading. Researchers say the light from an e-reader reduced sleepiness and made participants less alert the next morning. Source Link