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Angela Trimboli
Period 2
Mr. Pytko
General Statistics of Sleep Deprivation B 41
Sleep deprivation is a common condition that afflicts 47 million American adults.
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Sleep Deprivation Statistics B 42
Sleep Deprivation effects almost a quarter of the adult population.
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Symptoms B 43
Symptoms can interfere with memory, energy levels, mental abilities, and emotional mood.
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Symptoms B 44
Exhaustion, fatigue and lack of physical energy are common sleep deprivation symptoms.
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Negative effects of Sleep Deprivation B 45
Exhaustion and fatigue affect our emotional moods, causing pessimism, sadness, stress and anger.
(Brown 1)
Effects it may have B 46
The condition drastically affects the body's ability to metabolize glucose, leading to symptoms that mimic early-stage diabetes according to a study conducted by the University of Chicago Medical Center in 1999.
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Effects it plays in everyday life, and on other people B 47
The National Sleep Foundation has suggested that social problems such as road rage may be caused, in part, by a national epidemic of sleepiness.
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Facts about sleep B 48
The brain's ‘‘frontal cortex’’ relies on sleep to function effectively.
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Facts about sleep B 49
Insufficient rest affects the frontal cortex's ability to control speech, access memory, and solve problems.
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Effects on appearance B 50
It has been proven that sleep deprivation causes people to appear as though they’re aging.
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Appearance B 51
These physical reactions disappear once a particular subject gets some rest.
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Causes B 52
Emotional stress or excitement can interfere with sleeping patterns, as can some medical conditions and medication.
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Causes B 53
Food additives and caffeine can also make falling asleep difficult.
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Causes B 54
Over seventy identified sleeping disorders can disrupt normal nighttime patterns, and more disorders may yet be discovered.
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Sleeping Disorders B 55
Most sleep disorders can be treated successfully.
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Sleeping Disorders B 56
Symptoms of a possible sleeping disorder may include:
insomnia
excessive snoring
choking sensations while asleep
nightmares
excessive use of sleeping pills.
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Sleep Deprivation as a whole B 57
The trend in industrialized nations over the last hundred years suggests that people are increasingly sleep deprived.
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Sleep Patterns B 58
In 1910, the average person slept 9.0 hours a night. By 1975, the total had fallen to 7.5 hours.
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Sleep Patterns B 59
The average American adult now only sleeps 6.9 hours a night, leading to fatigue, exhaustion and other symptoms.
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Sleep Patterns B 60
Shift workers suffer more than other people: many shift workers average only five hours a night.
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