Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: excessive daytime sleepiness http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Study links diet with daytime sleepiness and alertness in healthy adults A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-links-diet-daytime-sleepiness-healthy.html Health Tue, 07 May 2013 16:48:11 EST news287164085 Study is first to find significant link between sleepiness and vitamin D A new study suggests that there is a significant correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and vitamin D, and race plays an important factor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-significant-link-sleepiness-vitamin-d.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:00:06 EST news274695679 Poor sleep may age your brain (HealthDay) -- Evidence is building that poor sleep patterns may do more than make you cranky: The amount and quality of shuteye you get could be linked to mental deterioration and Alzheimer's disease, four new studies suggest. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-poor-age-brain.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:29:50 EST news261678185 Weight gain induced by high-fat diet increases active-period sleep and sleep fragmentation Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that prolonged exposure to a high-fat diet reduces the quality of sleep in rats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-weight-gain-high-fat-diet-active-period.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 05:20:02 EST news261115500 Excessive sleepiness may be cause of learning, attention and school problems Children who have learning, attention and behavior problems may be suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness, even though clinical tests show them sleeping long enough at night, a new study reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-excessive-sleepiness-attention-school-problems.html Sleep apnea Tue, 01 May 2012 03:30:02 EST news255060366 Sleepiness in children linked to obesity, asthma (Medical Xpress) -- Obese, asthmatic, anxious or depressed children are more likely to experience excessive daytime sleepiness, or EDS, according to Penn State College of Medicine sleep researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sleepiness-children-linked-obesity-asthma.html Health Mon, 16 May 2011 10:50:37 EST news224761814