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If your answer is no,there are two studies published this week to encourage more rest for your kids.<\/p>\nIf your answer is no,there are two studies published this week to encourage more rest for your kids.<\/p>\n
A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health<\/a><\/em> found that 69 percent of teens are getting less than seven hours of sleep a night when they should be getting at least nine. The study also noted that more girls are sleep deprived than boys.<\/p>\n If you have young children who average eight hours of sleep or less a night, researchers have found this may lead to higher blood sugar – a precursor to diabetes<\/a>. The study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine<\/a><\/em>, reports the risk is even higher if your child is obese.<\/p>\n You can read more about sleep and the effects it has on your child from Children’s sleep specialist<\/a>, Dennis Rosen, MD<\/a>. He blogs on whether sleeping late will keep your child slim<\/a> and if later bedtimes increase the risk for depression and suicide in teens<\/a>.<\/p>\n Are your children getting enough sleep?<\/strong><\/p>\n \t If your answer is no,there are two studies published this week to encourage more rest for your kids. A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 69 percent of teens are getting less than seven hours of sleep a night when they should be getting at least nine. The study also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"email\"](\"http:\/\/childrenshospitalblog.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/sociable\/images\/email_link.png\" "\\"email\\"")
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