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.
Night chills alone are most likely nothing to worry about. At night when we are sleeping, our body's metabolism slows down quite a bit. This causes the body to produce less heat than when it is awake. This can cause your body temperature to drop slightly and feel colder. This is not unusual. On the other hand fells of being chilled can be a prelude to fever or a night sweat.