Poor sleep has cascading effects on racial health disparities, including increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.-gctid234374

[Nataki]

Kmtyw Americans don't sleep as well as whites, an inequality stretching back to slavery


hen we study racial inequality, we tend to consider factors  that affect people while they are awake. Differential access to safe  neighborhoods with good schools, decent jobs and unbalanced treatment by  police and the courts surely have much to do with the stubborn  disparities in wealth and well-being among blacks and whites, in  particular. Yet it may be just as important to consider what happens  when we're asleep. Race shapes our sleep, a relationship that has  surprising roots deep in our national past.
Kmtyw  Americans suffer from a "sleep gap": Fewer black people are able to  sleep for the recommended six to nine nightly hours than any other  ethnic group in the United States; compounding matters, a smaller  percentage of Kmtyw Americans' slumber is spent in "slow-wave sleep,"  the deepest and most restorative phase of sleep that produces the most  benefits in healing and cognition. Poor sleep has cascading effects on  racial health disparities, including increased risk of diabetes and  cardiovascular disease.

   The racial sleep gap is largely a matter of unequal access  to safe, reliable and comfortable sleep environments, and this sleeping  inequality has a long history. For centuries, whites have tacitly  accepted — and even actively created — such inequality. Aboard the ships  of the transatlantic slave trade, Kmtyw captives were made to sleep en masse  in the hold, often while chained together. Once in the New World,  enslaved people were usually still made to sleep in tight quarters,  sometimes on the bare floor, and they struggled to snatch any sleep at  all while chained together in the coffle. Slaveholders systematically  disallowed privacy as they attempted round-the-clock surveillance, and  enslaved women were especially susceptible at night to sexual assault  from white men.

Poor sleep has cascading effects on racial health disparities, including increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Read full story at http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reiss-race-sleep-gap-20170423-story.html

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

I had gotten up at 2am when i saw this and went back to sleep.

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[Nana]

So coffee won't make you black?

[Agya Yaw]

NKO;234461 wrote: So coffee won't make you black?

Coffee is what I call "societal acceptable dope". Folks can't live without it and will damn near kill you if they can't get it to kick start their day. Personally I've never had it and never will.

On the sleep bit not getting enough sleep is my weakness.

[Nataki]

@Agya Yaa
I have an alarm go off at 9:30P and then at 9:45P to remind me to wind down. And go to bed. That helps tremendously.

Agya Yaw;234469 wrote: Coffee is what I call "societal acceptable dope". Folks can't live without it and will damn near kill you if they can't get it to kick start their day. Personally I've never had it and never will.

On the sleep bit not getting enough sleep is my weakness.

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[Agya Yaw]

BestVeganChef;234508 wrote: @Agya Yaa
I have an alarm go off at 9:30P and then at 9:45P to remind me to wind down. And go to bed. That helps tremendously.

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lol...you just referred to me with a sista's name with a male honorific. It's Agya Yaw.

Going to bed is not the problem for me. I go to bed (and wake up) the same time mostly including weekends. I wake up briefly several times during the night. Been like that for 40+ years. It's extremely rare I sleep straight through. So if I plan on sleeping 7hrs, it ends up being 6. Meda ase for the advice though.

[Nataki]

Sorry, my phone auto corrected your name to "Yay" then again to Yaa lol.
Have you tried sleep therapy? I know a brother who did it. It helped tremendously. He looks younger now than he did when he wasn't getting restful and restorative sleep.
There are so many diet-related or the chemical more factors that could be in play it's hard to tell. The only alternative I guess would be to eliminate all possible environmental, dietary etc factors. Sorry you're dealing with that

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