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Chapter 18 - To Sleep, Perchance to … Get Everything Else Right
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Chapter 18 - To Sleep, Perchance to … Get Everything Else Right

Caroline West and Garry Egger
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.291-308
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017

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Abstract

Sleep disorders Apnea Insomnia Sleep diary Sleep hygiene Sleep debt
Inadequate sleep is an often underestimated determinant of ill health. Modern lifestyles can be in direct competition with sleep, suggesting a link with lifestyle choices. There is also an iterative link between sleep and a range of different lifestyle behaviors such as poor nutrition, inactivity, and use of small-screen technology. Sleep hygiene processes offer a range of lifestyle medicine techniques for ensuring healthy and adequate sleep.

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