Summary
William C. Dement, Christopher Vaughan: Sleep Better, Live Longer
Empirically, healthy sleep has been proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise or genetics. That's a fact. And again, most of us don't pay attention to it, we don't pay attention when we go to bed, we sleep disorderly, we wake up in the night, we get up tired. In this extraordinary book, based on decades of scientific research into human sleep, Dr. William Dement, founder and director of the Stanford University Sleep Research Center, explains what happens during sleep, what happens while we are awake, and how we can regain our greatest and most priceless treasure—a good night's sleep. Introducing us to the fascinating depiction of the human sleeping body and mind, Dr. Dement reveals the price we paid by ignoring healthy sleep: the epidemic of heart diseases (which are the leading cause of death in Croatia), traffic accidents caused by excessive fatigue (even a third of them), and frequent mental and psychological disorders. However, the book Sleep Better, Live Longer offers us a recipe for good sleep and a long life. It offers us solutions to fight the causes of poor sleep, snoring, insomnia, jet lag, apnea, etc. It also includes a list of reference health institutions for sleep disorders in our country.
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