100 Ways To Sleep Better. Beat Insomnia with Blue Energy. How to Get Great Sleep. Blame it on the Industrial Revolution. Or maybe on the light bulb. But ever since man met machine, sleep has been on the skids. In 2001, 38 percent of U.S. adults said they were sleeping less than they were just five years earlier. Americans now average seven hours in bed per night, and close to 60 percent now report they have trouble sleeping at least a few nights every week. Seduced by 24-hour casinos, reruns and the Internet, Americans have plenty of diversions to keep them wired and alert. Did we mention L.L. The biggest sleep robber of all, however, is work—the puritan ethic gone haywire in an era of global markets. To some degree, we can sacrifice sleep to oblige other demands on our time, but we pay a high price for the privilege. What we do at night affects everything we do during the day—our ability to learn, our skills, our memory , stamina, health and safety.
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