Sentences with phrase «shortened sleep duration»

In a Japanese study, shortened sleep duration increased risk of type 2 Diabetes.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

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It also delays the onset of REM, or rapid eye movement sleep, and may shorten the total duration of sleep (Holzman 2010).

For example, try keeping two separate sleep times but shortening the duration of both.

With the invention of electric light bulbs in the 1870s, followed by the development of television, the Internet, and other high tech devices, researchers have argued that the duration of sleep has been shortened from the «natural» levels evolved in our hunter - gatherer ancestors.

Night time light exposure can decrease sleep quality, but it can also shorten the duration of sleep, leading to further problems: