Sleeping less than 8 hours a night may be linked to weight gain in teens, shows a new study presented at CHEST 2011, the 77th annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Furthermore, obesity was linked to short sleep duration in teenage boys, with the fewest hours slept linked to the highest BMI levels.
Sleep is food for the brain. When teens do not get enough sleep, they fall asleep in class, struggle to concentrate, look and feel stressed, get sick more often, and do not meet their obligations due to tiredness, said study author Lata Casturi, MA, RPSGT, Baylor College of Medicine Sleep Center in Houston, Texas. Teens who sleep less than 8 hours may also consume more calories than those who sleep more than 8 hours.
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Christina Hendricks on Loving Your Body
As Joan Harris (née Holloway), the corseted, curvy, take-no-prisoners secretary-in-chief in AMC’s hit series , Christina Hendricks has crashed a vase over someone’s head to get attention. In real life, the star has wowed audiences and critics simply by being herself, a talent whose range is matched only by her extraordinary energy and beauty.
This fall she has two new movies — the comedy , co-starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and the thriller , opposite Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. And she’s recently resumed filming the fifth season of , which has earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, a Critics’ Choice Television Award, and legions of fans who either want to be Joan or date her. A
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the new book HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser. Copyright (c) 2011 by David Kaiser.
Rarely can we date with any precision the ebbs and flows of scientists’ research styles or intellectual approaches. Yet these transitions—the how’s and why’s behind major shifts in a scientific field’s reigning questions and methods—have long held a special fascination for me. We see laid bare in these moments a messy alchemy, intermixing the world of institutions with the world of ideas. Brilliant i
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Excerpt, Hippies Saved, Hippies Saved Physics, Saved Physics
The following is a guest post by Jill Nesbitt of dentalpracticecoaching.com. If you are interested in guest posting for Dental Heroes, please sign up here.
One of the most critical responsibilities an office manager has is to manage the schedule. The dentist wants it to be productive. The hygienists want it to be full. The assistants want it to have enough time to turn over rooms and catch up on cleaning instruments. The secretaries are busy trying to fill the schedule when it has holes and confirm and take care of patients when it’s full.
A properly managed schedule keeps the staff busy and reduces chit-chat time. It also keeps the focus on our patients instead of on ‘what did you do last weekend’ conversations. The s
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