May 25, 2010 -- Consumer Reports Health has issued a new ranking of the six repellents it says are best to ward off mosquitoes and deer ticks. The magazine says it tested 10 insect repellents in an outside laboratory, where volunteers let deer ticks crawl on them and also exposed themselves to mosquitoes.
Keep Your Cool to Sleep Better. Your body temperature can affect how well you sleep. Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam found that people slept better when their skin was slightly cooled.
This is, of course, assuming that the individual has slept at a normal time. Low body temperature at night is therefore a normal phenomenon. During the middle part of the day, body temperature may rise as a result of the physical and mental strain that takes place during a normal day.