How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need? That & More Coming Up ....

How much sleep do you actually need? In a recent story in Time magazine, a 2002 study found that Americans receiving between 6-and-a-half and 7-and-a-half hours of sleep live the longest, and that a higher death risk is associated with people receiving too little or too much sleep. In fact, more than 1-million American adults participated in the study that found sickness is U-shaped, meaning people receiving very short sleep and those receiving very long sleep are linked to more illnesses, and those range from depression to obesity and heart disease. The report also said that people suffering from insomnia should restrict time spent in bed and this treatment is actually more powerful and effective than using prescription sleeping pills.

Watch out CDs and digital downloads – Vinyl is making a comeback. One employee at Fred Meyer accidentally entered the LP code this spring versus the CD-DVD edition when ordering REM’s latest “Accelerate” album. Boxes of the vinyl disks got shipped to many Fred Meyer locations and some chose to sell the LPs, reporting 20 sales the first day. After this mistake seemed like a possible profit option, the Portland-based company decided to .....