Category Archives: Energy

A New Year’s Resolution You Can Keep With Your Eyes Closed!

We’re seven days into the new year, and statisticians say 20% of us have already given up on our resolutions. And, in six months that new treadmill you purchased will be a clothes rack. Why not invest in your health by improving something you do each day. I encourage you to resolve to get more sleep as it will help you achieve a higher quality of life and help achieve other new year’s resolutions. Sleep Well!

Sleep Gives Us Fighting Chance to Stave off Illness

Are you stocking up on hand sanitizers and vitamin-C in an effort to avoid a cold or the flu this season? Perhaps you’re better off getting high-quality sleep as new research confirms that eight hours of high-quality sleep could be…

The Perfect Pillow Featured on THE DOCTORS Talk Show

Your bed pillow is a critical piece to having a good nights sleep. I’m happy to share with you that on Monday, September 7, Sleep Number’s “Create Your Perfect Pillow” also known as Pillow[ology] was featured on the popular “THE…

Tips to Help You Sleep Better

According to the National Sleep Foundation, more than 150 million Americans – almost half the population of the United States – say they are not getting enough sleep. Reasons range from back pain to restlessness to job stress to sleep…

MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL SLEEP STUDY BY HARVARD RESEARCHERS REVEALS NEW IMPACT OF SLEEP QUALITY ON QUALITY OF LIFE

As the director of clinical research at Select Comfort, I’m excited to share the results of a new sleep study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass Gen) by Harvard researchers. To examine the impact sleep quality has on quality of…

Select Comfort’s Pete Bils says Spring Forward, and Spring Back into Bed

All of us here at Select Comfort are adjusting to the time change which got me thinking about some of the more interesting or unknown sleep facts. According to the National Sleep Foundation, more than 150 million Americans – almost…

Select Comfort Observations: New Year Resolution to Sleep More Could Help Your Heart

By now you probably know that the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting 7-8 hours of sleep each night; a recommendation I strongly support based on hundreds of clinical sleep trials and research I’ve been a part of. With 2009 approaching…

Leaf-raking= back pain? Learn how to ease back pain with a Sleep Number Bed

It’s leaf-raking season which means we’re all outside preparing our homes for winter before the snow falls. We Minnesotans at Select Comfort headquarters take a sort of perverse pride in the fickle weather for which our state is famous. We…