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Sleepless in America, a television program on the current epidemic of sleep deprivation, will air on the Nationwide Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 30, at 8 p.m. EST. It is too unhealthy Adam Mansbach already used Go the F- to Sleep” as a e-book title, as a result of it is the resounding message of the brand new documentary Sleepless in America,” airing Sunday on Nationwide Geographic Channel. The two-hour movie is a collaboration by the Public Good Tasks, the National Institutes of Health and NatGeo to carry attention to what can only be called a nationwide epidemic of modern American life - lack of sleep.

Should you see yourself anywhere on that listing, and statistics recommend that is doubtless, you're part of the fashionable epidemic of sleeplessness. And it's an epidemic whose roots could be discovered in the invention of artificial gentle. While we do not absolutely understand the specifics of why we sleep, we do know that sleep is a deeply ingrained biological need, in line with Sleepless in America. If you haven't but seen Sleepless in America, you'll be able to check it out on-line or tune in to the following broadcast, which airs Dec.

Sleepless in America highlights the current dialogue going down about high school starting times, noting that many excessive colleges begin earlier than 8 a.m., though youngsters are biologically programmed to remain up late and sleep late. This sleepless epidemic has additionally reached us right here in Canada, as a report launched by the World Affiliation of Sleep Medicine states that 30 per cent of Canadian adults get lower than 6 hours of sleep per night!

Though dropping a single night time of sleep may not appear as dangerous as crossing a busy street whereas blindfolded, continuous sleepless nights can actually cause both bodily and mental health problems. If you happen to see yourself wherever on this checklist — and statistics suggest that that's doubtless — you are part of the modern epidemic of sleeplessness, one whose roots might be traced to the invention of synthetic mild.

Dr. Matthew P. Walker of the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the effects of sleeplessness on mind operate, cited technological invasions into the bedroom at night time (and) longer commutes within the morning” as contributing elements to the epidemic of sleeplessness when he spoke to TELEVISION critics in the summertime sleepless epidemic. His new tome Sleepless (Ballantine) is a dystopian nightmare set in July 2010 with not less than 33 million (and rising) folks contaminated with FFI (Deadly Familial Insomnia), which, because the name suggests, is death-inducing sleeplessness.