URGENT HEALTH ALERT!

 

 

 

URGENT HEALTH ALERT!

 

 

Copyright © 2004-2008, Stan Daniels, Editor,

Urban Cartographer Online, all rights reserved.

  

 

 

Recent reports coming in across our News Desk

indicate a shocking set of facts of life for the population of the United States.

 

According to several sources of reliable information,

the three leading causes of preventable premature death are:

 

1. Sleep Deprivation,

2. Dehydration, and

3. Insufficient physical fitness.

 

 

 

 

 

Gaveside Service

"Gone too soon?"

 

 

Editorial Note.

It should go without saying, but we will say it anyway:

If you have any questions about the status of your personal health,

or there is any uncertainty whatsoever,

a competent physician or health care professional should be consulted.

 

 

    URGENT HEALTH ALERT!

 

Recent reports coming in across our News Desk indicate a shocking set of facts of life for the population of the United States.

 

According to several sources of reliable information, the three leading causes of preventable premature death are:

 

1. Sleep Deprivation,

2. Dehydration, and

3. Insufficient physical fitness.

 

These are factors primarily resulting from personal life styles, working conditions and habitation environments. That means, for better and for worse, change is possible, but not necessarily easy. Some conditions are under direct control of the individual, others are societal in nature. (The ancient African proverb is true - it really does take a "village" after all. And it only takes a few "idiots" to mess a lot of things up.)

 

For example, if a person loses an hour of sleep each night - for any reason - it adds up to the equivalent of a lost night's sleep each week. (You can do your own math.)

 

If, for another example, you are trying to manage your weight, suppose you can contribute one pound per week toward your goal? That adds up to 50 pounds in a year even if you take two weeks off for vacation or holidays. (That should be possible without enduring outrageous diet plans or incurring excessive health club costs.)

 

More later.

 

 

 

 

Additional information

 

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FORMULA FOR CATASTROPHE!

ONE man
doing the work of TWO people
on TWO hours sleep.

 (It shouldn't take a rocket scientist
or brain surgeon
to figure this one out.) 

 

 

 

 

 

Medical study finds long working hours, combined with getting little sleep or time off,

is a shortcut to an early grave.

 

Read abstract of the heart study from journal

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

 

Read the complete heart study from journal

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

(Available in PDF Format) Click Here. if you need to download a free PDF reader.

 

Most people live in a state of chronic low level sleep deprivation which weakens their health.

Learn How you can help yourself.

 

"THE HUMAN SLEEP CYCLE"

 

Read more about it! 

 As can be seen from the "hypnogram" in Figure 1, sleep stages cycle throughout the night, shown especially by REM sleep, which appears about every 90 minutes in human sleep, with each episode lasting around 20 minutes, and in total constituting 20-25% of sleep. Two other characteristics of sleep seen in this hypnogram are: a rapid descent to stage 4 sleep soon after sleep onset, and a prevalence of stages 3 and 4 sleep in the first two sleep cycles. The first period of REM sleep is usually a little shorter than the average.

 

  "DEATH & DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ! "
Read the facts for yourself.

Sleep Deficit, Fatal Accidents,
and the Spring Shift to Daylight Savings Time

 

Are you losing sleep from too much
"noise in your 'hood'?"

 

Is that nearby "home theater" shaking your pictures off the wall
and driving you up the wall?

Learn what they did not tell you!

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

America is seriously sleep-deprived
with disastrous consequences

The cost in dollars, lives,
and human suffering is very high

(The annual cost to the U.S. economy
is comparable to that of Hurricane Katrina!)

Read the facts for yourself! 

 

"What do the nuclear accident at Chernobyl,
the near meltdown at Three Mile Island,
the environmentally disastrous oil spill by the Exxon Valdez,
and the loss of the space shuttle Challenger all have in common?

They were all caused by people who were making mistakes
because they had had too little sleep."

From:
Sleep Thieves

copyright © 1996
Dr Stanley Coren
ISBN 0-684-82304-7

 

Sleep Deprivation 

(whatever the reasons)

can have Deadly and Tragic Consequences. 

Crash of Flight 5191
Tower controller
had slept only 2 hours 


and

Comair Flight 5191
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 


and

Not Even DOCTORS Are Immune!
Medical Residents Overworked 

and

Medical Errors Common
increasing risk of future mistakes 


and perhaps

Another news item 

might help to convince you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS ADDICTION?
Why are Alcohol and Other Drugs Addictive?

What Is Addiction?
Help An Addict
By Finding Out Now!

 

 

Learn more about a
PROVEN CURE
For the Drug Epidemic.
Teen Challenge International
has an 86 percent cure rate!

Looking for Answers?
They ARE Available!
Find Out Now!

 

 

AIDS

What YOU can do about it!
Fighting AIDS
How you can prevent its spread.
Why you need to be concerned but not afraid.


African Americans still represent
almost half the AIDS cases in the U.S.
Black Enterprise reports


Primetime's special report
"Out of Control:
AIDS in Black America,"
ABC-TV Special Report

 

 

The human body is primarily composed of water.
Water is not only beneficial but also vital to life --
only oxygen is more important to human survival.
Water is "The Most Powerful Healing Substance Known To Man."

Read Drinking Water, by Dr. George Grant

 

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"Speaking Out Against Domestic Violence"

Gary James Poetry

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Gary James Poetry

For far too long the cries of the abused and the hurting have gone unnoticed.

Finally, a book that captures the feelings of those who thought that no one cared and expresses them in the form of poetry.

This book reminds us all to look out for each other, because each other is all we have.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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