Running Head: AFFECTS OF SLEEP DEPTERVATION

Healthy Sleep
Julia Snell
Saint Leo University

Abstract
This paper will address the need for sleep, and the benefits of a healthy sleep habits. Sleep is the one area of human life that most neglected.

Sleep is a necessary neurologic that the body and mind expects. A pattern of sleepiness and wakefulness causes forgetfulness, fatigue, distraction, and drowsiness. Sleeplessness is the inability to sleep or the lack of getting the required amount of sleep for children, and adults. When an individual does not receive the adequate amount of sleep can and has in some cases, caused accidents, loss of job, and death. Alternatively, is natural order of substantiating healthy life? Sleep is the gateway for babies to grow, sleep for adults keeps their minds fresh and alert sleep is just as important as the air we breathe.
According to the 2009 CDC’s “health Surveillance Study” determined that only 30% of U.S teen obtained the required amount of sleep (9 to 10 hours per night). In addition, CDC showed that some U.S adults experience inadequate sleep. Adult should get at least seven to nine hours of sleep per night, less than seven will cause drowsiness, will burden daily activities such as working efficiently, school, and other activities (Healthypeople.gov, 2012). Students in grade 9 to 12 should sleep on average of 9 hours a night. Because their bodies are still growing, and their minds are retaining information sleep is essential to retain and process information. Sleep apnea is as common as strokes, with about 12 million U.S citizens who have but do not know that they do in turn they have obesity, high blood pressure, clogged arteries, and heart failure have linked to apnea. Most people with sleep apnea do realize they have this condition, and is why the loss of life. Because the airway muscle tones during sleep are loss, because muscles to collapse choking off oxygen to the lungs resulting in death unless the person is awaken to start breathing again. In a study conducted for Floridians showed about 29% of the adult population did not received enough sleep (Disease, 2011).
According to Menstuff®, people with nightly episode of breathlessness during sleeping are twice as likely to suffer from strokes and /or die as an unsteady breather. The report confirmed that 1,000 patients participating in the study suggest that apnea does increase the risk of strokes in adults, just as much as smoking, high blood press, and diabetes. Stroke is the nation third leading cause of death, and the biggest cause of disabilities according to the “American Heart Association.” Still, each year over 600,000 people have strokes and 250 of them die.

Target setting method: minimal statistical significance Data source In 2008 and 2009, Florida adults reported sleepiness on ≥14 days for a 30-day span. The map represents the prevalence of insufficient sleep among Florida adults by county.

Ways to avoid sleepiness is getting to bed at the same time each night, moderate physical activity may help promote sleep, however, avoid vigorous exercise hours before sleep. Avoiding large meals, caffeine, and nicotine before bedtime and keeping the bedroom quiet, dark, remove the TV, computer, and gadget that will keep you awake.
Reduce the rate of Vehicular crashes per 100 million miles traveled that are due to drowsy driving (Healthypeople.gov, 2012) Most American who have families both parents are working, children are drop off at their perspective location, all the while the adults are late going to bed and early to rise to care for their families. More often than not are averaging less than 7 hours of sleep. Lacking necessary sleep is what will cause drowsiness behind the wheel.
Sleepiness causes auto crashes because it impairs performance and can ultimately lead to the inability to resist falling asleep at the wheel. Critical aspects of driving impairment associated with sleepiness are reaction time, awareness, attention, and information processing (Georges, 2009). Most people have busy lives, and sleep to them is not an import factor as health eating, exercise, but in studies that are more recent, the more sleep the healthier the bodies and will reduce drowsiness.
According the “National Sleep Foundations” 2005 American poll revealed that 60% of adult drivers have driven feeling drowsy, also in the past years more that on their people have actually fallen asleep behind the wheel. More than ten million drives have admitted to causing near accident because of dozing off.

Panels after conducting a wide range search for information on sleep, circadian rhythms, sleepiness, drowsiness, sleep physiology, and sleep disorders, as well as the association of the risk of car crash prevention. Sleepiness impairs performance that will lead to slower reaction time, will reduce vigilance and a person will have difficulties in processing information.

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