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Stressed?

Sleep It Away

Easing some of your stress and anxiety could be
as simple as crawling into bed. Two small new
studies by researchers at UC Berkeley found 70 TH
that people exhibited higher anxiety levels while
watching an emotionally stirring video clip after a ANNIVERSARY
sleepless night compared with when they watched
it after a full night of sleep. Interestingly, those
who spent more time in the deep sleep phase had This month
the lowest anxiety levels. Researchers believe that in Prevention
drifting into deep sleep “resets” the portion of the history
brain that helps regulate emotions and anxiety, Prevention has been
and they say the findings suggest that getting ade- concerned about smok-
quate shut-eye may help us all feel a little calmer. ing since our earliest
For tips on how to achieve that, flip to “The All-Day days. In February 1952,
Guide to a Better Night’s Sleep” on page 62. there was a small but
compelling warning
against the dangers of
secondhand smoke,
and in February 1960—
four years before the
Surgeon General’s report
that linked smoking with
lung cancer and heart
disease—editors wrote,
“The amount of informa-
tion on the clear relation
of smoking to cancer is
monumental. All of it,
without exception, is
from scientific men of
the highest caliber. Why
61 CHILDREN CONSUME A SUGARY ment do something GETTY IMAGES (WOMAN ASLEEP).
THIS PERCENTAGE OF U.S.
does not the govern-
to protect its people
DRINK ON A TYPICAL DAY,
(Today, you can visit
according to a new study in the against this menace?”
PERCENT American Journal of Preventive Medicine. smokefree.gov for help.)

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