suggested amount of sleep. She states that 71% American adults and 85% of American teens are sleep deprived. Depriving the body of an efficient amount of sleep can be detrimental to the body and the mind. She explains that while sleep deprivation is a condition that people adapt to over time‚ sleep deprivation can lead to very serious health problems. People lack knowledge about he repercussions of being sleep deprived so they do not realize the dangers in starving the body of sleep. Sleep is the body’s
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Informative Speech Purpose: To inform or educate the audience about a topic of your choice. Time: 4-6 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not inform us of something we already know tons about. You may not choose something that could be done as a demonstration speech. Requirements: - You must inform the audience
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Sleep is one of the body’s mysterious functions that is required by all human beings. The function of sleep is still not fully understood‚ although a battery of experiments and a multitude of theories attempt to explain it. One of categories that falls under the study of sleep is sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is an important study since it affects individuals‚ groups‚ and the environment. Unfortunately‚ sleep deprivation affects a large amount of the human population‚ afflicting millions
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students who go through academic difficulties and inadequate sleep are unaware of the degree of impairment this practice causes in completing cognitive tasks. Lack of sleep leads to sleepiness and defective performance in terms of the neurocognitive and psychomotor aspects which increases the risk of students to have impaired decision-making skills‚ memory‚ and learning. (BaHammam et al.‚ 2012). Daytime sleepiness and sleep deprivation can result to consequences such as the decrease of grades and
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Times on March 1‚ 2013‚ “Sleep Deprivation has genetic consequences‚ study finds” Eryn Brown states that people who have lack of sleep have higher risk of disease. Brown says that people who lack more sleep than others shut down genes that heal the body and are more likely to be obese‚ suffer from “cardiovascular woes”‚ and can have several diseases. She supports her claim by using types of evidence by a study conceived by scientists‚ then the statistics of people that are sleep-deprived ‚ and finally
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Review of Related Literature A. Unhealthy sleep habits Not sleeping enough and not sleeping well is not OK. As a matter of fact‚ there is quite a price to pay. It may surprise you to learn that chronic sleep deprivation‚ for whatever reason‚ significantly affects your health‚ performance‚ safety‚ and pocketbook. There are many causes of sleep deprivation. The stresses of daily life may intrude upon our ability to sleep well‚ or perhaps we trade sleep for more work or play. We may have medical
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Alexandra Corujo Andrew Golden ENC 1101 0ct 8‚ 2013 Sleep Deprivation Becoming a Problem Sleep deprivation has been a big part with the 21st century. Children are becoming more advanced in technology‚ but lacking the advancement in school performance like in this article. Staying up late at night usually browsing the web or playing around on their electronic devices and having to wake up early for school is becoming critical in a student’s life. Sean Coughlan provides a wide range of
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problem seems to be a later school day. According to the National Sleep Foundation‚ "later sleep and wake patterns among adolescents are biologically determined" ("A Look at the School Start Times Debate"). Teenagers are naturally inclined "to stay up later in the night and wake up later in the morning" ("Look"). School times that start first thing in the morning conflict with teenagers ’ intrinsic sleeping patterns‚ and lack of sleep adversely affects teenagers ’ health. A 2006 national survey found
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is very modest compared with other risk factors for heart disease. Effects on Weight. Insomnia or sleeplessness or wakefulness can cause weight gain and obesity. Obesity problem in the United States might have insomnia as one of its causes. Sleep deprivation or sleeplessness might disrupt the hormones that regulate glucose metabolism and can cause weight gain. The association between insomnia and obesity is strongest in young and middle-age adults. Effects of Insomnia on growth. Highest levels of
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a minimum of nine to ten hours of sleep every single day to perform at their best (Dretzke). This means students must go to bed at 9 P.M. on school nights to get the necessary sleep leaving only one hour every morning to get ready‚ eat‚ and commute to school. Because adolescents need a minimum of nine to ten hours of sleep every day‚ school should begin at a later time because of student’s performance‚ their breakfast‚ and the negative effects of sleep deprivation. One of the main goals of extending
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