by sherps | May 24, 2012 | Alternative Therapies, Alternative Therapies, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness, SNORING
A recent US study outlined by many of the UK newspapers this week, has reported that sufferers of sleep apnoea are 5 times more at-risk of cancers than those who sleep normally. However, note well that the Daily Telegraph’s provocative headline: Snoring...
by sherps | May 17, 2012 | Health, Sleep, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness
According to the Mirror this week, 1 in 3 Brits have been plagued by insomnia since the announcement of a double-dip recession. Increased stress levels regarding the global economic crisis, leading to sleeplessness, is costing the NHS £50 million a year in sleeping...
by breatheasighofrelief | Apr 27, 2012 | Health, Life Balance, Sleep, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness
A little about sleep… Sleep is essential to the rhythm of life. As you sleep your body rests and restores, leaving you ready to meet the day ahead at your best. Yet 30% (and rising) of the UK population report difficulties sleeping. The consequences of poor sleep are...
by sherps | Apr 19, 2012 | Health, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness
This week’s episode of Bang Goes the Theory (aired on BBC 1 on Monday and available online for another three weeks) looks at the prevalence of radio, wifi and mobile phone signals in our surrounding envirnoment. This short clip is a must-watch; condensing the...
by sherps | Apr 12, 2012 | Alternative Therapies, Alternative Therapies, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness
This week Sky News reported on a new sleep app called Dream:ON, which uses music to influence the sleeper’s dreams. For regular readers of the Breathing Relief Sleep Blog, a smartphone application claiming to induce/influence sleep is nothing new. So what makes...
by sherps | Apr 4, 2012 | Alternative Therapies, Health Through Food, Sleep Awareness, Sleep Awareness
Easter weekend marks the end of Lent as well as the death (and subsequent resurrection) of Christ. Celebrated by people all over the world, of various Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations, its origins, as well as the etymology of the word ‘Easter’...
