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Article: Health & Life: Rise and whine! We're not getting enough between the sheets A new survey reveals that only one in 10 West Midlanders manages to get a goodnight's sleep. ANDY RICHARDS asks why nodding off can be such a problem, andwhat can be done about it.
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- April 27, 1999
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IT is as vital as food and water in keeping us healthy and alive.
It's sleep. Over the next ten years, we will spend 30,000 hours
in bed - equivalent to around 30 per cent of our lives. Yet only a
few of us will feel we have slept well.
Insomnia, or the inability to sleep, is something that most
people
will suffer from at some time during their lives.
And here in the West Midlands we're worse than most.
The Sleep Council has found that only one in ten people in the
region claims to have had a good night's sleep.
There are various symptoms of insomnia, the most common of which
is having difficulty falling asleep at night.
Close behind is waking up during the night and having difficulty ...