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...There's this enormous commercial push now to convince people that if they don't get eight hours of sleep a night, there's something wrong with them," Siegel says. But in fact, there's more mythology than substance to the eight-hour figure. Back in the 1980s, a survey of more than 1 million people found that those who slept more than 7 1/2 hours a night tended to die a little sooner than their more sleep-deprived counterparts. But there is a wide enough variation in the data that you can't use the results to make...
...survey, 12% of locals could not tell their flag from Australia's. Some would prefer the banner above, depicting the silver fern, a Kiwi icon
There aren't many parents who would let their children suffer needlessly. But if the results of a new survey are correct, suffering is just what many of the 6 million U.S. youngsters with asthma are doing...
...study, which was the result of a survey of 41,000 households, came up with other troubling numbers: 23% of asthmatic kids made at least one trip to the emergency room in the past year; 54% missed some school or day care; 62% had to limit their activities as a result of their condition. "With today's treatments," says Dr. William Sears, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at Irvine and a consultant in the study, "these kids should be symptom free most of the time...
...another area of study entirely, some research suggests that caffeine may help prevent Parkinson's disease and Type 2 diabetes. Using data gathered in an 18-year health survey of 125,000 men and women, Meir Stampfer, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, found that coffee drinkers had lower incidences of both diseases, though the benefit was a bit less pronounced for Parkinson's. He concedes that the work is preliminary, particularly in light of other studies that show caffeine worsens diabetes in people who already have it. But he is convinced that further...