Wake Up Call: Poll Reveals Millions of Americans Asleep at the Wheel, Even Too Tired for Sex

March 30, 2005

  • March 30, 2005 at 11:13 am
    yawn says:
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    From CBS News (not exactly the poster child of fair reporting): “Before you’re convinced that we’ve become a nation of walking zombies, you might want to consider what we found when we checked into who funds the National Sleep Foundation: companies that make – you guessed it – sleeping pills and other insomnia remedies….”

    Does this taint studies like this? What about safety or healthy living studies that the insurance business funds?

  • March 30, 2005 at 1:51 am
    No longer sleepy says:
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    Funding may have some influence on any study. But, as one who was diagnosed with sleep apnea five years ago, the fact that I recognized I had a problem and went to a doctor who recognized the symptoms and got me into a sleep study, I am convinced there are many others with similar problems. These people are posing a risk to their own health and well being, as well as that of those driving on the same highways. Medication is of no value to a person with sleep apnea. The remedy is a machine which maintains airflow to the lungs through the night, eliminating the sleep interruptions and allowing for a full nights sleep. I am aware of a number of friends and work associates that have been diagnosed with the same problem over the past couple of years.

  • March 30, 2005 at 4:54 am
    Unsurprised says:
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    Not surprising that doctors that put interns thru abusive sleep paterns would not be very concerned about others’ sleep problems.

    If you put patients in jeopardy as well your fellow physicians by allowing or demanding sleep deprived “doctoring” you are part of the problem. Looking for doctors to change everyone else is a dream known as a nightmare.

  • March 31, 2005 at 12:11 pm
    Sleepless in NY says:
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  • August 7, 2005 at 9:29 am
    Ricky Neva says:
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    I don’t know about all that but I do know that American is mentally alseep! They must be to let George W. Bush deceive them into believing he is doing a good job!
    Never in our history has a president taken so much of the Constitution away from Americans than Bush. He is the worst president ever and his actions are felonious at the very least. The fact now that many questions have arisen over the 911 attacks and George Bush and neocons keep coming up as cupable! America has to be asleep and that includes the news media that refuses to report on the inconsistencies of the Bush 911 study which was pure fantasy! Yes, I can see why they don’t want sex, it takes someone to be mentally awake as well as physically awake. Good luck on the next attack arranged by Bush, I hear it will be a nuclear attack to really rally the populace so he can turn this country into a dictatorship!



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