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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 13 2019, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-sheep-two-sheep-red-sheep-blue-sheep dept.

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More Americans struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep

Getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep every night is a struggle for most people, but even those who do may not have the best sleep.

New research from Iowa State University finds more Americans have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. The changes were independent of sleep duration, and difficulties were most prevalent in people with healthy sleep length, the findings show. The study, published in the journal Sleep Health, is one of the first to look at how multiple dimensions of sleep health change over time.

Zlatan Krizan, professor of psychology, and his research team analyzed data collected from nearly 165,000 individuals from 2013 to 2017, as part of the National Health Interview Survey. Over the course of five years, adults who reported at least one day a week with difficulty falling asleep increased by 1.43% and those reporting at least one day with trouble staying asleep increased by 2.70%. While the percentages may seem small, Krizan says based on 2018 population estimates this means as many as five million more Americans are experiencing some sleep difficulties.

"Indeed, how long we sleep is important, but how well we sleep and how we feel about our sleep is important in its own right," Krizan said. "Sleep health is a multidimensional phenomenon, so examining all the aspects of sleep is crucial for future research."

Garrett C. Hisler, Diana Muranovic, Zlatan Krizan. Changes in sleep difficulties among the U.S. population from 2013 to 2017: results from the National Health Interview Survey. Sleep Health, 2019; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.08.008


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:22PM (17 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:22PM (#919793) Journal

    Put this in the category with the gut biome research.

    Science is proving that the two things our system makes it most difficult to do, micromanage your diet and ensure stable sleep patterns, are the key to longevity and happiness.

    Not to mention the continued threat of destruction at the push of a button, continued war escalations, and the threat of the dissolution of all institutions that provide stability whatsoever, it seems to me that our system is designed with the opposite in mind.

    anti-humanism is a thing now. There is no one making any decisions for society right now who cares a single bit whatsoever about how much poor people sleep or whether they can manage their gut biome.

    Humans at this point who are gung ho for this form of civilization and technology are like the facepainted crowds cheering human sacrifices in the movie Apocalypto....hm maybe Ill make a meme comparing trump rallies to that movie...hold my beer....

    thesesystemsarefailing.net

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:27PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:27PM (#919796)

    I await your glorious rise to power to tell me how I should eat and sleep.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:57PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @12:57PM (#919807)

      How about labor theory of value with a system that retains market dynamics? Central planning for the socialist utopia sure, for big industries--the kinds of products and services that wind up being monopolies anyway. I'm still on the idea of a more anarchist system for fostering innovation yet with small industries--the startups under capitalism.

      Has anybody out there designed a simulator of exchange theory of value and capitalist forms of property that could be adapted to labor theory of value and socialist forms of property? Obviously such a simulator would need to verify the inherent contradictions of capitalism, so that with socialist economic rules it might expose inherent contradictions of socialism. Nothing is perfect, so I'd be very suspicious of not being thorough enough if there weren't inherent, systemic contradictions.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:21PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:21PM (#919857) Journal

        How about labor theory of value with a system that retains market dynamics?

        We already have all that. The labor theory of value turned out to be worthless. The system with market dynamics turned out otherwise.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:33PM (6 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:33PM (#919861) Journal

        Has anybody out there designed a simulator of exchange theory of value and capitalist forms of property that could be adapted to labor theory of value and socialist forms of property? Obviously such a simulator would need to verify the inherent contradictions of capitalism, so that with socialist economic rules it might expose inherent contradictions of socialism. Nothing is perfect, so I'd be very suspicious of not being thorough enough if there weren't inherent, systemic contradictions.

        There's real world central planning examples. I don't know of any other sort of implementation of Marxist ideas that isn't heavily mixed with capitalism. If there's going to be a simulator, there needs to be a model of the dynamics - which frankly I think is a large part of the problem with these concepts.

        But if I were to try, I suppose I'd try a simultaneous optimization problem where parties try to optimize for various economic things and see what happens. Some part would be altruists trying to optimize for societal benefit (perhaps even their perception of such) and some would be defectors (from the societal goals) trying to optimize for a variety of selfish interests (like wealth, power, etc), and see what happens. I think there would be educational systemic contradictions like the altruists faring worse than the selfish interests.

        • (Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:59PM (4 children)

          by aiwarrior (1812) on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:59PM (#919879) Journal

          Your post touches what 2 points i have been thinking are key to understanding why people tend to socialism:
          1> Perceived social benefit is the actual goal to be optimized, not social benefit itself.
          2> It is most likely that market based selfishness has the highest global benefit but lowes perceived benefit, and why people try to go away from it.
          3> It does not matter: Socialist societies will veer to Capitalism, and Capitalist societies will veer to Socialism, meaning that a meta-stability will arise in a real world, in the form of current western societies.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:54PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:54PM (#919909)

            Late stage socialism: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Another-SF-day-Another-assault-by-a-deranged-man-14454289.php [sfchronicle.com]

            One of the most expensive places to live in the world... where you are at risk of crazed homeless people dragging you out of your car and dumping a bucket of diareah they have been storing up for weeks or months on your head. Socialism always ends in an overclass and underclass like this, as the middle class flees.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:57PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @04:57PM (#919912)
            • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Wednesday November 13 2019, @05:47PM (1 child)

              by PiMuNu (3823) on Wednesday November 13 2019, @05:47PM (#919936)

              California? Socialist? What planet are you on?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @06:45PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @06:45PM (#919960)

                LOL, nazis weren't socialist either right? They were just all about government meddling in every aspect of people's lives.

        • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday November 14 2019, @02:58AM

          by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday November 14 2019, @02:58AM (#920168) Journal

          It doesn't matter if you're Marxist, terrorist, or both, everything is capitalism [indiatimes.com] [turn off scripting]. The idealism is so 19th century.

          --
          La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:43PM (#919867)

      See the twisted mind on display.

      Jm is certainly pessimistic, there are many people who care
        It is just that the system has been corrupted so we have an outsized influence by assholes

  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:09PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:09PM (#919853) Journal

    jmichael stresses over things that just don't make much sense to me. The threat of destruction at the push of a button? Crap - it's been that way for all of my 63 years on this planet. Did that stop me learning to ride a tricycle, then a bicycle, then a motorcycle? Helllll NO! Those commie pinkos in Moscow couldn't scare ME!

    Chill, dude. You worry too much. That's why you write so much incomprehensible nonsense on your sites.

  • (Score: 1, Disagree) by khallow on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:19PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:19PM (#919856) Journal

    Not to mention the continued threat of destruction at the push of a button, continued war escalations, and the threat of the dissolution of all institutions that provide stability whatsoever, it seems to me that our system is designed with the opposite in mind.

    What war escalations? It's been pretty mild since the end of the Cold War and that's including half a dozen or so big wars and a few genocides. Things have gone remarkably well from the situation in the first half of the 20th Century.

    There is no one making any decisions for society right now who cares a single bit whatsoever about how much poor people sleep or whether they can manage their gut biome.

    Why should it ever be their decision to make? Those poor people can make decisions as well.

    • (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday November 15 2019, @11:56AM (1 child)

      by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Friday November 15 2019, @11:56AM (#920657) Journal

      spoken like a true zionist

      As long as israel gets to steal some more land this week and harvey weinstein can safely rehabilitate his image, the rest of the world can burn and you sleep well.

      Other people aren't as awful as you, so they see the world differently.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 15 2019, @02:17PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 15 2019, @02:17PM (#920689) Journal
        Truth remains a defense against such accusations. Yes, the US and/or its allies are engaged in a few shifty wars. But globally, there are far less wars than there used to be. Those very nuclear weapons you criticize have led to an era of relative peace. And frankly, I don't see any way such a peace could have been achieved without putting the fear of nuclear extinction in the hearts of everyone. Fear is still one of the few motivations that consistently works to keep the powerful constrained.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 13 2019, @03:49PM (#919871)

    You forgot to mention our precious bodily fluids.

    • (Score: 2) by Webweasel on Thursday November 14 2019, @11:27AM

      by Webweasel (567) on Thursday November 14 2019, @11:27AM (#920290) Homepage Journal

      Purity Of Essence

      --
      Priyom.org Number stations, Russian Military radio. "You are a bad, bad man. Do you have any other virtues?"-Runaway1956