By Barbara Floria, Pure Matters Everyone has an occasional night
of poor sleep. But if it often takes you more than 30 minutes to
fall asleep at night or you wake up frequently during the night
and have a hard time going back to sleep, you could have a sleep
problem that needs attention. “Adequate sleep is as essential to
good health as exercise and proper nutrition, and if you’re
short of sleep, you can suffer physical, mental and emotional
problems because of it,” says Amy Wolfson, Ph.D., professor of
psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
Learning what sleep does for you and how to get more and better-
quality sleep can help improve your present and future well-
being. Sleep and health “Sleep deprivation, or an accumulated
sleep debt caused by sleeping fewer hours than you need night
after night, puts people at a variety of risks that include
impaired immune function, car accidents, reduced memory, even
unhappiness, and mistakes at work,” says Dr. Wolfson. In
addition, ongoing resear