Understanding the Language of Silence - Sleep, Sleep Behavior and Sleep Disorders. Dr. Amrit Lal

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      UNDERSTANDING THE SOUND OF SILENCE

      (SLEEP, SLEEP BEHAVIOR

      AND SLEEP DISORDERS)

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      One-fifth of Adult Americans inured to

      SLEEPLESSNESS which has shocked both

      the medical community and most hardened

      insomniacs across the nation overtaken

      by weird cultural stratagem.

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      UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO GET EVERYONE TO RESTORATIVE SLEEP.

      BY

      DR. AMRIT LAL

      Copyright 2014 Dr. Amrit Lal,

      All rights reserved.

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2168-1

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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Dr. Lal is a Specialist in Community Medicine specializing in Geriatrics and Public Health Epidemiology. He has done extensive work in the field of his specializations with various governments, international organizations, professional bodies and universities in Asia, Africa and the United States. In the United States he has worked for the State of Georgia (for Public Health Division), the State of Maine (for CDC – Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Augusta) and in the State of Washington. He has also been a panelist/consultant for Institute of International Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.

      Beside a Doctorate and a number of professional qualifications and registrations in his field, Dr. Lal has a couple of postgraduate degrees from India and an honor bachelor degree from Pretoria (South Africa). He was admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Health, London, in 1979.

      Dr. Lal has authored over 170 publications which have appeared in different parts of the world and have been taken note of by universities in Europe, US and Africa and by a number of professional bodies, medical associations, academies of science, demographic and eugenics societies in the UK and US . His papers have also been translated into French, Hungarian and Italian languages.

      BOOKS ON GERATRICS (Print and digital format)

      AUTHORED BY Dr. A. LAL

      1.Escape from Hell – Your Guide to Sleep and Sleep Disorders.(2003)*/

      2.PAIN : Managing the Unmanageable.(2003)**/

      3.Understanding Major Pains.(2003)**/

      4.Heart Attacks – Silent, Violent and Recurrent.(2005)*/

      5.A Heart too good to loose – For Anyone to Undergo Heart Surgery*/ (2005)

      */Also being processed for digital editions.

      **/ Already processed in e-book format by JayPeeBros Medical Publishers.

      SLEEP AROUND THE WORLD

      A FACT SHEET Which May Surprize You!

      Data culled from The U.S. National Sleep Foundation’s 2013, International Bedroom Poll on sleep time, attitudes, habits and bedroom routines in the U.S., Canada, The U.K, Germany, Japan and Mexico between the ages of 25 and 55 years.

      •Japan and the U.S. reported the least amount of sleep averaging 6 hours and 22 minutes and 6 hours and 31 minutes respectively.

      •66% of the Japanese sleep less than 7 hours of sleep on work nights compared to 53%of Canadians and 29% of Mexicans.

      •Americans come out as the most sleep-deprived nation in the world with less than 6 hours of sleep on any workday: US (21%), Japan (19%) and UK (18%) – about twice the rate of other countries (11% Mexico), (10% Germany) and (7% Canada).

      •Less than half of the people world over are sleeping well every night; Mexicans (48%), Americans (44%), Canadians (43%), British (42%), Germans (40%). The Japanese are luckier on this count with slightly more than half (54%) say they get good sleep every night.

      •More than half of Mexicans (62%) and nearly half of Americans (47%) meditate or pray in the hour before sleep.

      •43% of British drink a soothing beverage such as tea before bedtime and almost one third (30%) report sleeping naked.

      •Perhaps the most common bedtime experience across different countries is television (66% to 80%) of people in all countries surveyed watch television in the hour before bedtime.

      “O SLEEP!

      O GENTLE SLEEP,

      NATURE’S SOFT NURSE,

      HOW HAVE I FRIGHTENED THEE THAT

      THOU NO MORE WILT WEIGH MINE EYELIDS DOWN,

      AND SLEEP MY SENSES IN FORGETFULNESS.”

      (English Poet and Dramatist William Shakespeare)

      “O SLEEP!

      IN WHOM ALL THINGS FIND REST,

      MOST PERFECT OF THE GODS.

      YOU WHO CALM THE MIND,

      PUT CARES TO FLIGHTS,

      SOOTHE LIMBS WEARIED BY HARSH TASKS

      AND REFRESH THEM FROM THEIR TOIL.”

      (OVID – The Roman Poet)

      “OH SLEEP! IT IS A GENTLE THING, BELOVED FROM POLE TO POLE.”

      (English Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Rime of the Ancient Mariners)

      PREFACE

      This is my second book on SLEEP; the earlier one published in 2003 under the title Escape From Hell - ”Sleep Disorders & Treatment,” (Medical Facts Series, English Edition, Mumbai) with superimposed sub-titles “What is Sleep?,” “Why do we Sleep?,” “How Do we Sleep?,” “Dreams” and “Sleep Disorders” on the cover-page itself. My earlier work covered the subject generically in 12 chapters in an all-pervasive and persistent manner and dealt with sleep science from dreams to disorders of sleep.

      Since then there has been a sea change in sleep science. The subject appears to have acquired a sort of mystique especially for the elderly people who suffer the most when their sleep goes haywire. Accordingly, in this presentation, there is an added emphasis on the older group of populations whose number has been increasing with an exceptional rapidity in the demography of every country.

      Of course, there is very little, if at all, repeat in the text of this presentation from my earlier book on sleep, and, what I am saying here cuts altogether new ground. Those who have read my earlier book will find that this presentation lays bare many hitherto uncovered facets of sleep from altogether new perspectives, and makes a deep incursion into pathology of