How Much Sleep Do You Really Need

							2                                                                                                            Monday 16th June, 2008


                                                                                                                                                                                                         Utah town may revise ban
How Much Sleep Do                                                                                                                                                                                        on bikinis at city pool

You Really Need?                                                                                                                                                                                         A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ban on bikinis at the                communities.                                    ban received may linger for
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 city pool is expected                    “We were so engrossed                       the city like a bad sunburn.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 to be revised, ending a              with safety and health issues                      The restrictions were not
                                                                                                                                                                                                         short-lived prohibition on                   we overlooked the wording,”                     popular, even in the commu-
                                                                                                                                                                                                         the popular two-piece pool                   Laycook said. “We are                           nity where the council
                                                                                                                                                                                                         attire. But that does not                    addressing that now by                          passed a resolution in 2006 to
                                                                                                                                                                                                         mean that lifting the G-rat-                 amending the policy.”                           favor the “natural family”
                                                                                                                                                                                                         ing is going to lead to pool-                    Bikinis that don’t reveal                   consisting of a working hus-
                                                                                                                                                                                                         side G-strings.                              too much will be allowed, as                    band, a stay-at-home wife
                                                                                                                                                                                                             “My recommendation is                    will Speedos for men when                       and a “full quiver of chil-
                                                                                                                                                                                                         going to be no thongs or                     the new public pool —                           dren.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                         string bikinis,” said City                   known as the Cowboy                                Victor Cooper, owner of
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Councilwoman Nina                            Water’n Hole — opens July 4                     the Rocking-V Cafe, said cus-
                                                                                                                                                                                                         Laycook, who called the orig-                in the community just north                     tomers in the restaurant
                                                                                                                                                                                                         inal dress code an oversight.                of the Arizona state line.                      joked about the ban and
                                                                                                                                                                                                             Laycook said the policy                  Laycook said council mem-                       expected them to be glad
                                                                                                                                                                                                         will probably be revised at                  bers discussed revising the                     when it was lifted.
                                                                                                                                                                                                         the council’s meeting June                   policy Tuesday night. She                          “They reacted to the
                                                                                                                                                                                                         24, bringing Kanab back in                   does not expect any prob-                       (ban) with comical disbelief
                                                                                                                                                                                                         line with city pools even in                 lems making the change.                         more than anything,” Cooper
                                                                                                                                                                                                         the state’s most conservative                    But the publicity that the                  said. (AP)




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                                                                                                                                                                                                                  he much
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  awaited
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  South
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Indian film
                                                                                                                                                                                                           ‘Dhasavatharam
                                                                                                                                                                                                           ’ will be shown
                                                                                                                                                                                                           on the local cir-
                                                                                                                                                                                                           cuit on from 13.
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Presented by
                                                                                                                                                                                                           Naash
                                                                                                                                                                                                           International
                                                                                                                                                                                                           (Pvt Ltd) the
                                                                                                                                                                                                           films stars leg-
                 by Laura Blue
                                                                        Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a                            think we can prevent a lot of                                        endary South
                                                                        little worse than sleeping 5 hr..                             insomnia and distress just by                                        Indian matinee
                                                                                                                                                                                                           idol

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      leep is one of the richest top-                                       Morbidity [or sickness] is also                           telling people that short sleep is
      ics in science today: why we                                      “U-shaped” in the sense that both                             O.K. We’ve all been told you ought                                   Kamalahassan.
      need it, why it can be hard to                                    very short sleep and very long                                to sleep 8 hr., but there was never                                     Kamalahassa
get, and how that affects every-                                        sleep are associated with many ill-                           any evidence. A very common                                          n who is the
thing from our athletic perform-                                        nesses—with depression, with obe-                             problem we see at sleep clinics is
                                                                                                                                                                                                           recipient of
ance to our income. Daniel Kripke,                                      sity—and therefore with heart dis-                            people who spend too long in bed.
                                                                                                                                                                                                           about 175 cine-
co-director of research at the                                          ease—and so forth. But the [ideal                             They think they should sleep 8 or


                                                                                                                                                                                                               Enter: ‘Dhasavatharam’
Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La                                       amount of sleep] for different                                9 hr., so they spend [that amount
Jolla, Calif., has looked at the                                        health measures isn’t all in the                              of time] in bed, with the result
most important question of all. In                                      same place. Most of the low points                            that they have trouble falling
2002, he compared death rates                                           are at 7 or 8 hr., but there are some                         asleep and wake up a lot during
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ma awards
among more than 1 million                                               at 6 hr. and even at 9 hr. I think                            the night. Oddly enough, a lot of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      He has won
American adults who, as part of a                                       diabetes is lowest in 7-hr. sleepers                          the problem [of insomnia] is lying
study on cancer prevention,                                             [for example]. But these measures                             in bed awake, worrying about it.                                                                                                                                             three national
reported their average nightly                                          aren’t as clear as the mortality                              There have been many controlled                                                                                                                                              awards and his
amount of sleep. To many, his                                           data.                                                         studies in the U.S., Great Britain                                                                                                                                           career began in
results were surprising, but                                                I think we can speculate [about                           and other parts of Europe that                                                                                                                                               1960 as a baby
they’ve since been corroborated                                         why people who sleep from 6.5 to                              show that an insomnia treatment                                                                                                                                              actor in the film
by similar studies in Europe and                                        7.5 hr. live longer], but we have to                          that involves getting out of bed                                                                                                                                             Kalathur
East Asia. Kripke explains.                                             admit that we don’t really under-                             when you’re not sleepy and                                                                                                                                                   Kannamma.
    Q: How much sleep is ideal?                                         stand the reasons. We don’t really                            restricting your time in bed actu-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Some of his
    A: Studies show that people                                         know yet what is cause and what                               ally helps people to sleep more.
who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5                                       is effect. So we don’t know if a                              They get over their fear of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   popular films
hr. a night, as they report, live the                                   short sleeper can live longer by                              bed. They get over the worry, and                                                                                                                                            which were
longest. And people who sleep 8 hr.                                     extending their sleep, and we                                 become confident that when they                                                                                                                                              shown locally
or more, or less than 6.5 hr., they                                     don’t know if a long sleeper can                              go to bed, they will sleep. So                                                                                                                                               were Vettayadu
don’t live quite as long. There is                                      live longer by setting the alarm                              spending less time in bed actually                                                                                                                                           Vellayadu,
just as much risk associated with                                       clock a bit earlier. We’re hoping to                          makes sleep better. It is in fact a                                                                                                                                          Panchathanthra
sleeping too long as with sleeping                                      organize tests of those questions.                            more powerful and effective long-                                                                                                                                            nam, and the
too short. The big surprise is that                                         One of the reasons I like to                              term treatment for insomnia than
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1995 film
long sleep seems to start at 8 hr.                                      publicize these facts is that I                               sleeping pills.      (TIME)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Thenali.




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