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US poll says technology is the culprit

Written by: David Castillo on March 23rd, 2011

US poll says technology is the culprit | read this item

While more and more Americans are losing sleep, researchers have found an unlikely culprit which lurks amongst sleepers during bedtime—technology. According to a recent poll by the National Sleep Foundation, entitled 2011 Sleep in America, almost 95 percent of the 1,508 survey participants say that they use different electronic gadgets around an hour before their supposed bedtimes.

Happening almost several nights each week, survey participants expose themselves to various types of technology such as mobile phones, video games, computers and television, all of which have the ability the degrade the quality of one’s sleep in the evening.

Stony Brook (N.Y.) University School of Medicine associate professor of preventive medicine Lauren Hale explains that “communication technologies are often light-emitting, which can suppress the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin and make it harder to go to sleep at night,” adding that “the hypothesis is that more active technologies are worse for sleep because of the psychological effect of being stimulated at night.”

Source: thenewsstar.com