Sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle.... Like eating right and exercising, sleeping well is essential to feeling your best during the day. It affects how you feel, your relationships, your productivity and your quality of life. While you sleep, your brain goes to work, consolidating the day's learning into memory and reenergizing the body

Sleep...It refreshes us like nothing else. It can be occasionally elusive, almost always comforting, and definitely essential to our survival. And although we spend 33% of our lives asleep, we barely give it a moment's notice....until we can't sleep. Then we think about it to the point of obsession.

For millions of people, the consequences of a poor night's sleep – higher stress, increased mistakes, difficulty concentrating – are every day occurrences. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Numbers Don't Lie
 

Sleep Census 2000

• -62% of Americans said they have difficulty sleeping.
  
• -90% said that getting better sleep would improve their lives.
  
• -70% said that they have felt drowsy while driving.
  

American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• -Back pain affects one in four Americans and is the second leading cause of work absenteeism.

National Sleep Foundation's Ominbus Sleep in America Poll

• -34% of adults surveyed say they toss and turn nightly.
• -The top factors disrupting sleep are stress (22%) and pain (20%)
  
• -Nearly two-thirds of American adults experience a sleep problem three or more nights a week.
  
• -More than half of young adults report waking up unrefreshed.
  
• -40% of all adults experience some sort of back pain lasting more than one day.
  
• -Americans have cut their sleep time by 20% in the past century.
  

National Sleep Foundation

• -20% of drivers fall asleep at the wheel.
• -National Sleep Foundation has found that 47 million adults get too little sleep.
  
• -21% of people who are often sleepy during the day said that they are dissatisfied with life.
  

Find out more about how sleep can impact your health:

• Sleep & Illness
  
• R.E.M Sleep
  
• Stress and Sleep in America
• Tips for Better Sleep
• Women and Sleep
• Sleep Positions
• Sleep Disorders