DO NOT DISTURB

UNEDITED SAMPLE SCIENCE AND HEALTH ARTICLE
By Ma Inna Paulina Egamino Palana
III-Wilhelm Roentgen


Every student will do anything just to pass the test for the next day, especially if it is all about Mathematics, Science, Social Studies or English. From school, they will go straight home, rest for a while, eat dinner then off to their study table, putting out one by one their notebooks and books, then placing a label outside their bedroom door saying, “DON’T DISTURB”. Mostly, dudes like these get easily annoyed in the slightest sound they will hear in their surroundings because they can’t concentrate or they can’t memorize what they are memorizing at that moment. That is why a lot of scientists are conducting some researches to help these diligent scholars have some ease by decreasing their cargo.

First stop, have you ever experienced that anger because you can’t understand the slightest thing you’re studying? Check your position. Try to put your feet up and lie down. This is what Dr. Darren Lipnicki from the school of psychology at the Australian National University discovered. To prove this, he tested 20 people to solve 32 letter anagrams while standing and lying down. The result? Smarter and more creative are we in lying down than standing up. It seems that the neurotransmitter noradrenaline are less released when the body’s horizontal, so the creative thinking isn’t damaged.

Next is, if you’re on the mood on studying. Often, you have to study long lists of dates and names in History like Nebuchadnezzar, Nebopolassar, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, or the twelve dynasties in China which are the Hsia, Shang, Chou, Chin, Han, Sui, T’ang, Sung, Yuan, Ming and Manchu. Just looking at the long notes make you want to sleep; it makes you idle or sometimes give up, for who can memorize all of those in one night? The problem and the answer can be on the food intake. The British Dietetic Association stated that lack of important vitamins may be the cause of blue feelings. In cases like these, people should eat foods rich in vitamins B, folic acid, and iron, which is the best way to improve mood. If you want some healthy snacks (these goes for those who are on a diet), increase vitamin B intake by eating wholegrain breads or a handful of fruit, orange for some folic acid and for iron, eat cereals in breakfast time.

Now, in Dreamweaver, try to enumerate all the frames under the Tables. You have the left frame, right frame, top frame, bottom frame, bottom and nested left frame, bottom and nested right frame, left and nested bottom frame, left and nested top frames, and many more. Isn’t it difficult to memorize those words all at the same time for same words are being used but in different places?

Most of the students are becoming Night Shifters just to memorize all those words with their meaning. That is why you should try to start eating vegetables. Studies show that eating vegetables in meals and before studying helps your mind in memorizing and makes it more focused because of the vitamins it contain. Healthy, non-fat, and has a lot of benefits.

Of course, all of this are balderdash if you will not practice a regular sleep. As things get more hectic, sleep tends to get short shrift. It's seen as wasted time, lost forever. "For healthy people, there's a big temptation to voluntarily restrict sleep, to stay up an hour or two or get up an hour or two earlier," said Dr. Greg Belenky, director of the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane."But you're really reducing your productivity and exposing yourself to risk," Belenky added. Before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, people slept an average of 10 hours a night. Compared to our present time, people tends to sleep less than 5 hours because of the hectic schedule they are in. "The group of people getting optimal sleep is getting smaller and smaller," said Dr. Chris Drake, senior scientist at the Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders and Research Center in Detroit. "When a person's sleep drops to six hours or less, that's when a lot of things become very problematic."While experts recommend seven to eight hours of sleep each night, the amount needed for an individual can vary. But lack of sleep affects a person in one of two ways, Belenky said. First, sleeplessness affects the day-to-day performance of tasks. "The performance effects are seen immediately," he said. "You short-change yourself of sleep, and you see the effects immediately. You can make a bad decision. You can miss something. Have a moment's inattention, and you're off the road." Doctors have seen some link of lack of sleep to diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, depression and substance abuse, and gain weight. Ever experience that feeling being hungry again after eating a meal? You might think it is already gluttony, but it can also be the bad effect of having a lack of sleep. "Hormones that process appetite begin to get disorganized," said Drake, who's also an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. “There's a decrease in the amount of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone, when a person gets too little sleep. At the same time, ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, increases with a lack of sleep.”

Now, after reading this article, think you can pass the test?