Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-17 Thread ss
On Saturday 16 Jan 2010 11:04:09 am Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > The doctors on the list can > validate. Shiv? In fact sleep studies and the effects of lack of sleep do not form part of the traditional medical curriculum. The need for adequate sleep used to be "traditional knowledge unmodified

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-16 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan < kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having seen people burn out, and one former employee of a company I > used to work for being admitted to a mental institution due to stress > and not getting enough sleep, I try and get at least 6-7 hours

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-15 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2010/1/15 ss : > Famous last words.. > > shiv +1 Having seen people burn out, and one former employee of a company I used to work for being admitted to a mental institution due to stress and not getting enough sleep, I try and get at least 6-7 hours of sleep daily, though it is irregular sometim

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-15 Thread ss
On Thursday 14 Jan 2010 6:47:54 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Lack of sleep isn't the killer, irregular sleep patterns are. Famous last words.. shiv

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Midnight to 4 am, and noon to 4 pm is still 8 hours btw > Not being an expert, I can't really judge if that's a valid equivalency, but it would appear, there's many variables to this question - for example, I can think of the effect

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] You snooze, you win Sent: Jan 14, 2010 19:20 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 1/14/2010 6:47 PM]: > Well, the siesta wasn't much of an example for this > > That was the hottest part

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:20:43PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Are you claiming that a regular sleep pattern of significantly less than > 8 hours (5 hours, say) per night is just fine? There's considerable personal variation, presumably. For me, 8 h is not quite enough. -- Eugen* Leitl http

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 1/14/2010 6:47 PM]: > Well, the siesta wasn't much of an example for this > > That was the hottest part of the day in spain / spanish colonies (mostly in > the tropics and/or desert) so the spaniards and people they colonized simply > slept through the hottest

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
kar N Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:27:47 To: Subject: Re: [silk] You snooze, you win On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 7:15 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6354855.stm > > Afternoon nap 'is good for heart' > > Working men seem to benefit the most from

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2010-01-14 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 7:15 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6354855.stm > > Afternoon nap 'is good for heart' > > Working men seem to benefit the most from a siesta > > Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from > heart disease, part

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-13 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 2/13/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I presume you're in home office, or have a quite space at work to retire for a power nap? I tend to take a 30 minute break cum snooze on the massage chair some days, but I'd really like more time in bed. Of course, I'm working towards tha

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-13 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers. My head just hit the keyboard Venky

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Neha Viswanathan
Ever since I started working from home - the catnap thing hasn't quite worked for me. It used to work in Bombay when I had this magnanimous boss - who allowed me to get some shuteye when the superboss wasn't watching. -- Neha Viswanathan +44(0) 77695 65886 London, UK http://withinandwithout.co

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote [at 11:33 AM 2/13/2007] : > Hence the pointed forwarding of a note about siestas. (ObDibsBait: siestae?) I presume you're in home office, or have a quite space at work to retire for a power nap? No, unfortunately. :( Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:52:19AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Hence the pointed forwarding of a note about siestas. (ObDibsBait: siestae?) I presume you're in home office, or have a quite space at work to retire for a power nap? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org ___

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:40:08AM +0430, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I thought *I* was weird, posting early in the morning...I guess I do > belong on the silklist, then, if the owner posts stuff at 6.15 am! Well, I can't sleep either. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death > from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers. and I never did buy the argument when Biju propounded it ;) - -- You see thin

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Tue, February 13, 2007 7:40 am, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I thought *I* was weird, posting early in the morning...I guess I do > belong on the silklist, then, if the owner posts stuff at 6.15 am! Hence the pointed forwarding of a note about siestas. (ObDibsBait: siestae?) Udhay

Re: [silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
I thought *I* was weird, posting early in the morning...I guess I do belong on the silklist, then, if the owner posts stuff at 6.15 am! Deepa. On 2/13/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6354855.stm Afternoon nap 'is good for heart' Working men see

[silk] You snooze, you win

2007-02-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6354855.stm Afternoon nap 'is good for heart' Working men seem to benefit the most from a siesta Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers. A six-year Greek st