Dancing With the Priests

Whenever you go online, there are headlines everywhere. Some attract our attention and we click through to find out more. Others strike no chord and our lack of knowledge continues. Looking back over the last ten years, it’s become impossible to avoid learning about the risks associated with obesity. Everyone makes the link between this condition and an “epidemic” – a word referring to diseases and disorders. The majority accept that eating a healthy diet and exercising on a regular basis is the way to protect our health. Unfortunately, fewer people make the link between lack of sleep and the same list of diseases affecting the overweight. We tend to rate sleep disorders low on the scale of dangers. If we have a bad night’s sleep, it’s difficult the next day. No-one relates loss of sleep to diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

Why worry? Because, thanks to the stresses and pressures of modern life, the majority of us are sleeping less than we did two generations ago. We used to sleep an average of nine hours a night. Now the average has dropped to seven-and-a-half. In part, this is due to longer commutes and more time spent at work. When you finally get home, there’s the family and things to do. You want to catch the latest episodes of your must-watch television series, chat with friends online. There are so many distractions to keep us from going to bed. And then, even if we lie down, we may still be thinking about the last exciting pass through the social networking site, electronic games, the latest music, the argument with your partner for not spending more time with him or her, [insert whatever you find keeps you awake].

No matter what people tell you, the ability to work well on less than five hours sleep a night is very rare. Indeed, the Archives of Internal Medicine reports that people sleeping less than seven hours release stress hormones and this increases the risk of heart disease. The National Cancer Institute proves a link between less sleep and cancer. Ten years ago, a study published in Lancet showed men deprived of sleep with glucose and lipid levels close to those associated with diabetes. People who sleep an average of five hours are 73% more likely to become obese. At present, the research shows no consistent pattern of cause and effect. When someone is diagnosed with heart disease is that caused by the stress, or was the stress only the trigger for lack of sleep which caused the disease? There is a real need for research into the role sleep plays in our lives.
Read the rest of this entry »

When you need to have the other kind of translation services, you should come to the Translia.com. On Translia.com, you are encouraged to set deadlines based on your own schedule. This site seldom asks clients to extend their deadlines because our standard turnaround time can meet the requirements most of the time. You may request quotes at any time and we will respond in a few seconds. After getting the quote you can let us start working on your job immediately. Our translators stand by around the clock so you don’t have to wait for the next business day.

They always deliver the translation services in a timely manner. Such timeliness is assured by the facts that we have the world’s largest translator pool and our unique Collab Trans technology allows multiple professional translation services from the best translator to work together to deliver a job. They never simplify or skip the quality assurance process to speed up translation. Instead, their standard translation service process requires Alternating TEP that most translation companies cannot guarantee. They have successfully streamlined business process and make collaborative language translation service possible. They automate the ordering process so that you may place an order in a few minutes. As soon as your order is accepted, their translators will be notified and start working on your professional translation project immediately.