Understanding the Language of Silence - Sleep, Sleep Behavior and Sleep Disorders

Amrit Lal

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UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO GET EVERYONE TO RESTORATIVE SLEEP.

This book is on SLEEP, but not to "sell sleep" because everyone wants a good night sleep - "a divine nap." Human beings spend one-third of their lives in sleep; they take sleep for guaranteed as a natural gift of life as air and water to enable realize their potential, and, not as a luxury.
Sleep is one's life greatest pleasure that enriches virtually every aspect of our being - from our mood to the functioning of our organs. This being so, this presentation treats sleep not as an altogether passive state of quiescence but as an active and vibrant phase of life with inroads into psycho-social and neurological avenues of sleep while unraveling many aspects of sleep which include pathology of sleep disorders which are on the rise perhaps as a price for modernity.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Bien-être émotionnel
• Diseases
• Medical
• Médecine

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• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 16 mars 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456621681
• Langue: English

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UNDERSTANDING THE SOUND OF SILENCE
 
( SLEEP, SLEEP BEHAVIOR
AND SLEEP DISORDERS)
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One-fifth of Adult Americans inured to
SLEEPLESSNESS which has shocked both
the medical community and most hardened
insomniacs across the nation overtaken
by weird cultural stratagem.
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UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO GET EVERYONE TO RESTORATIVE SLEEP.
 
BY
DR. AM RIT LAL

Copyright 2014 Dr. Amrit Lal,
All rights reserved.
 
 
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 
Dr. Lal is a Specialist in Community Medicine specializing in Geriatrics and Public Health Epidemiology. He has done extensive work in the field of his specializations with various governments, international organizations, professional bodies and universities in Asia, Africa and the United States. In the United States he has worked for the State of Georgia (for Public Health Division), the State of Maine (for CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Augusta) and in the State of Washington. He has also been a panelist/consultant for Institute of International Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Beside a Doctorate and a number of professional qualifications and registrations in his field, Dr. Lal has a couple of postgraduate degrees from India and an honor bachelor degree from Pretoria (South Africa). He was admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Health, London, in 1979.
Dr. Lal has authored over 170 publications which have appeared in different parts of the world and have been taken note of by universities in Europe, US and Africa and by a number of professional bodies, medical associations, academies of science, demographic and eugenics societies in the UK and US . His papers have also been translated into French, Hungarian and Italian languages.

BOOKS ON GERATRICS (Print and digital format)
AUTHORED BY Dr. A. LAL
1. Escape from Hell – Your Guide to Sleep and Sleep Disorders.(2003) */
2. PAIN : Managing the Unmanageable.(2003) **/
3. Understanding Major Pains.(2003) **/
4. Heart Attacks – Silent, Violent and Recurrent.(2005) */
5. A Heart too good to loose – For Anyone to Undergo Heart Surgery */ (2005)
*/ Also being processed for digital editions.
**/ Already processed in e-book format by JayPeeBros Medical Publishers.

SLEEP AROUND THE WORLD
A FACT SHEET Which May Surprize You!
Data culled from The U.S. National Sleep Foundation’s 2013, International Bedroom Poll on sleep time, attitudes, habits and bedroom routines in the U.S., Canada, The U.K, Germany, Japan and Mexico between the ages of 25 and 55 years.
• Japan and the U.S. reported the least amount of sleep averaging 6 hours and 22 minutes and 6 hours and 31 minutes respectively.
• 66% of the Japanese sleep less than 7 hours of sleep on work nights compared to 53%of Canadians and 29% of Mexicans.
• Americans come out as the most sleep-deprived nation in the world with less than 6 hours of sleep on any workday: US (21%), Japan (19%) and UK (18%) – about twice the rate of other countries (11% Mexico), (10% Germany) and (7% Canada).
• Less than half of the people world over are sleeping well every night; Mexicans (48%), Americans (44%), Canadians (43%), British (42%), Germans (40%). The Japanese are luckier on this count with slightly more than half (54%) say they get good sleep every night.
• More than half of Mexicans (62%) and nearly half of Americans (47%) meditate or pray in the hour before sleep.
• 43% of British drink a soothing beverage such as tea before bedtime and almost one third (30%) report sleeping naked.
• Perhaps the most common bedtime experience across different countries is television (66% to 80%) of people in all countries surveyed watch television in the hour before bedtime.

“O SLEEP!
O GENTLE SLEEP,
NATURE’S SOFT NURSE,
HOW HAVE I FRIGHTENED THEE THAT
THOU NO MORE WILT WEIGH MINE EYELIDS DOWN,
AND SLEEP MY SENSES IN FORGETFULNESS.”
( English Poet and Dramatist William Shakespeare)

“O SLEEP!
IN WHOM ALL THINGS FIND REST,
MOST PERFECT OF THE GODS.
YOU WHO CALM THE MIND,
PUT CARES TO FLIGHTS,
SOOTHE LIMBS WEARIED BY HARSH TASKS
AND REFRESH THEM FROM THEIR TOIL.”
(OVID – The Roman Poet)

“OH SLEEP! IT IS A GENTLE THING, BELOVED FROM POLE TO POLE.”
(English Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Rime of the Ancient Mariners)
PREFACE
This is my second book on SLEEP; the earlier one published in 2003 under the title Escape From Hell - ” Sleep Disorders & Treatment, ” (Medical Facts Series, English Edition, Mumbai) with superimposed sub-titles “What is Sleep?,” “Why do we Sleep?,” “How Do we Sleep?,” “Dreams” and “Sleep Disorders” on the cover-page itself. My earlier work covered the subject generically in 12 chapters in an all-pervasive and persistent manner and dealt with sleep science from dreams to disorders of sleep.
Since then there has been a sea change in sleep science. The subject appears to have acquired a sort of mystique especially for the elderly people who suffer the most when their sleep goes haywire. Accordingly, in this presentation, there is an added emphasis on the older group of populations whose number has been increasing with an exceptional rapidity in the demography of every country.
Of course, there is very little, if at all, repeat in the text of this presentation from my earlier book on sleep, and, what I am saying here cuts altogether new ground. Those who have read my earlier book will find that this presentation lays bare many hitherto uncovered facets of sleep from altogether new perspectives, and makes a deep incursion into pathology of sleep disorders and other types of sleep aberrations.
This book is on SLEEP, but not to “sell sleep” because everyone wants a good night sleep - “a divine nap.” Human beings spend one-third of their lives in sleep; they take sleep for guaranteed as a natural gift of life as air and water to enable realize their potential, and, not as a luxury.
Sleep is one’s life greatest pleasure that enriches virtually every aspect of our being – from our mood to the functioning of our organs. This being so, this presentation treats sleep not as an altogether passive state of quiescence but as an active and vibrant phase of life with inroads into psycho-social and neurological avenues of sleep while unraveling many aspects of sleep which include pathology of sleep disorders which are on the rise perhaps as a price for modernity.
Nobody wants to be sick. This is a paramount need of all living beings. This fact gets repeated reassertions in a number of research studies on health and also in an epoch-making book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” first published some 72 years back when only 5,000 copies were printed, but since then this book has undergone countless repeat publications to this day (15 million copies sold during 72 years in print). The well-known author of the book, Dale Carnegie, mentions of a survey around 1933 undertaken by the University of Chicago and United Y.M.C.A. School in the Town of Meridian, Connecticut - a typical American town. The survey which took 2 years to complete with a funding of $25,000.00 (a princely sum then) interviewed almost every adult in the town on the basis of 156 questions in the questionnaire schedule. The most amazing finding of the survey revealed Health is the primary interest of adults. Needless to mention sleep plays an integral part in keeping people healthy. A sleep-deprived individual or the one suffering from any other kind of sleep disorder cannot be healthy.
My field assignments as a public health specialist had taken me to many parts of the world in Asia, Africa and the United States for quite long spells of time and have provided me with firsthand account and a reasonably well insight into public health geriatrics. Interactions with different groups of people from different races and informal discussions with community leaders at local leadership structures further provided me knowledge at the very grass-root level of a variety of health problems and common sleep disorders in various communities. Also, sharing these observations with my peer group and professionals in clinics, hospitals and universities has provided me a number of learning situations than a few books on the subject would have taught me – what it really means to be a victim of some sleep disorder because, at one time, I, myself, had been a victim of insomnia and can thus well empathize. I, therefore dedicate this book to all those who are victims of some sort of sleep disorders with a note of caution that the book is not intended to replace the physician or sleep therapist nor I recommend any sort of self-diagnosis or self-doctoring for medication. This is the work of sleep disorders professionals.
My professional sojourns in different continents of the world has also made me realize that technical jargon, scientific terminology, visually impressive pie diagrams, histograms, trend lines, graphs and charts, regression analyses, statistical tables and correlations documenting vast amount of technical data and copious references from epidemiological and clinical studies and case histories asterisked by foot notes – impressive as they are when it comes to credibility – have a limited impact when the text filters down to the actual reader where “rubber meets the road.” Against this realization, I have very carefully avoided such perils to quote, display or reproduce information unless where absolutely necessary. But I have provided a g