Sentences with phrase «whether duration of sleep»

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In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

Whether the mice were kept in constant light, constant darkness or normal cycles of both, their sleep times and duration became random.

Furthermore, our finding that obtaining an adequate sleep duration reduced overeating and consumption of fats and carbohydrates, combined with findings of reduced fat loss during a caloric restriction regimen when obtaining insufficient sleep (42) indicates clinical trials are needed to determine whether sleep is a modifiable risk factor that can assist weight loss and maintenance programs to improve dietary habits and metabolic health.