Sleep Problems (Nutrition and Health)

This series provides users with accessible information for evaluating the often conflicting and ever-changing issues surrounding nutrition and healthy living.; This title in Lucent’s Nutrition and Health series talks about sleep disorders. It describes the different types of sleep disorders, what research suggests about the causes of sleep disorders, and how sleep disorders are treated and prevented.Introduction Dispelling a Famous Sleep MythChapter 1 Why Sleep is Vital to EveryoneChapter 2 The Chief Sleep Disorder: InsomniaChapter 3 Other Common Sleep DisordersChapter 4 Weird Behaviors While SleepingChapter 5 Finding Paths to Better Sleep; Individual volumes focus on a specific health or nutrition-related topic, such as body image, diets and dieting, junk food, or vegetarianism. Each contains a topic overview, information about changing trends, up-to-date scientific analysis, and a look at controversies surrounding the featured subject. The narrative also contains personal anecdotes, informative sidebars, fact boxes, and statistics that help readers understand these topics and how they impact their bodies and their lives. Full-color photographs and detailed tables, charts, graphs and illustrations complement and enhance the text, while ancillary materials such as a glossary, a bibliography and a subject index provide useful tools for further research and discussion. Read more