The Journal Of The American College Of Nutrition

Morgan Manella in the article “Study: A Third of U.S. Adults Don’t Get Enough Sleep” argues that sleep deprivation can have a negative effect in someone’s health. Manella supports her argument by presenting statistics that shows how adults that don’t enough sleep have chronic conditions. The author’s purpose is to raise awareness so that people will sleep more often and have a better health condition.

The title of this study “Sleep Quality in Nurses: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Day and Night Shift Workers” appropriately portrays the information of the article. It describes the design of the study, a randomized trial, as well as the topic, sleep quality of nurses. Overall it gives a good picture of what the article includes.

Sleep duration and quality participate in normal metabolism, function of immune system, mood, and cognitive functioning [1]. Short duration of sleep and circadian misalignment are hypothesized to contribute to many problems of health including over weight, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiac disease, mood disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and

Nutritionists are people who specialize in food and their nutritional properties. Nutritionists spend their time teaching individuals about making healthy eating choices and adapt healthy habits in their diet. Healthy dietary choices is the first step to creating healthier lifestyles, and nutritionists specialize in communicating that. Nutritionists acquire these well paying jobs through many years of schooling, training, and internships. Nutritionists are well educated individuals with many duties, as well as little perks and chances to advance in their career.

Falafel is simply chickpeas that have been soaked, mashed and combined with other ingredients such as bread crumbs, onions, spices, and egg, shaped into small balls and fried in cooking oil. They are often served as part of a grand salad or in pita bread as a sandwich or shaped into patties as a hamburger substitute.

Since the patient reported not taking a multivitamin daily because he was confident he received all his nutritional needs from his vegetarian diet, the patient was asked to complete a food diary over a five day period to observe his dietary habits. The patient was then instructed to record his daily diet in a food diary and was then asked to return the food diary at his next appointment. Upon receiving the food diary from the patient, the information was entered in the ChooseMyPlate.gov database and a nutrient report was developed. The nutrient report showed the patient consumed less than the daily recommended allowance for the following nutrients: total calories, protein, fiber, calcium, potassium, copper, iron, magnesium, vitamins A, B6,

The Psychology and Health journal focuses on the approaches to health and illness and contains topics such as physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors, health attitudes and behavior, the individual health care system interface. The journal publishes original research, accepts meta-analyses work and presents psychological methods and efforts in health-related fields. The objective of the study Subjective age and sleep in middle-aged and older adults was to assess chronological age and how it is used to explain changes in sleep.

Sacrificing Sleep? This is What It Will Do to Your Health by Sandee Lamott creates strategies for better health and identifies the risks one would take by not sleeping. Health-wise, it’s genuinely easy to understand how it would be unhealthy for your body and its functions. Not sleeping has been linked with many kind of disasters that range from physical occurrences such as car crashes to diseases such as dementia and anxiety. “Sleep deprivation is threatening the health of up to 45% of the world’s population,” (Lamott, 1). Many individuals like myself have been/are sleep deprived, in fact, “50 million to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders,” (Lamott, 1).

Sleep is an essential part of any person’s health, however few people seem to realize that not receiving enough sleep can double the risk of becoming obese.“The ‘epidemic’ of obesity is paralleled by a ‘silent epidemic’ of reduced sleep duration with short sleep duration linked to the increased risk of obesity both in adults and in children”(Professor Cappuio). Someone who has developed a sleeping disorder such as, sleep apnea, may not have the motivation to diet or exercise, due to daytime sleepiness. Scientists at the University of Chicago conucted a study in 1999, which restricted eleven healthy young adults to four hours of sleep for six nights. The scientist discovered that restricting individuals to this amount of sleep impaired metabolism functions and disrupted hormone levels. It was also found that the subject’s abilities to process glucose in the blood had declined, in some cases to the level of diabities. ” Not only does obesity contribute to sleep problems such as sleep apnea, but sleep problems can also contribute to obesity.”(National Sleep Foundation)

What I learned about taking Nutrition and Performance that was beneficial for me would be how food and energy can impact my performance and fitness throughout my life and also learning how to build a healthy eating plan by including the main three food groups Carbohydrate, Protein and Fat into into my diet. An example of a concept I learned that benefitted me would be in the course required textbook “Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook fifth Edition” where Clark talked about creating a “Winning Food Plan” to prevent hunger and curving your desire of intaking food on the go, for example Clark stated “When people get too hungry, they tend to care less about the nutritional quality of the food they eat and more about grabbing whatever food

This paper will explore the study into and the results of a study into any possible connection between insomnia with short sleep duration and mortality. The purpose of this paper is to bring forth a better understanding of why this study was implemented and the benefits, if any, of the results stemming from the study. We will focus on the study itself and of its participants. We will also be providing thoughts on the study 's conclusions and of any ramifications that may arise moving forward, that this study provides. The methods that were used by the researchers were simple in theory and in application. Bring together a group of participants, one thousand seven hundred and forty-one to be precise. Study their sleep patterns for a single night and then follow-up on said participants throughout a fourteen year span. The researchers would attempt to discover any and all links between insomnia with short sleep duration and mortality in men and women with their findings. In doing so, the researchers had hoped that their work would lead to a better understanding of the necessity for the treatment of insomnia, and the need for further studies within this field. These researchers concluded that there is a link between insomnia with short sleep duration with mortality in men, although they were not as successful in finding a similar clear link in women.

Sleep can also be looked at to help the fight against obesity. Studies have shown that on short nights of sleep people consume more calories and most of the increase is calories from fat (St-Onge 2011). This study looked at people with a BMI of 22-26 on a short night’s sleep (4 hours), and a normal night’s sleep (9 hours). The level of activity in people on short versus long nights of sleep was not significantly different, however their increased caloric intake was ~300 on short nights of sleep, most of which were snacks (St-Onge 2011).

Recently, many epidemiology studies were conducted to find out the effect of sleep deprivation on the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Sleep deprivation is a concern for the working population especially the shift-workers. If sleep deprivation leads to cardiovascular diseases, they are at higher risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, myocardial infarction and stroke. I chose five recent studies that provide an insight of the relationship between sleep deprivation and cardiovascular diseases.

The objective of this study is to determine the effect of body composition on sleep

Gary D. Miller is the only Author who has contributed to the research of this journal. If there are any further questions about the study of the journal, you can contact him with the direct link under his name which forwards his email.