Everyday Experiments

Just came across a map showing the patient to doctor ratios in different countries worldwide. Though the map is three years old, it's still effective in showing how health care is addressed worldwide. Glaring fact: Cuba tops the doctor-to-patient ratio stats worldwide with one doctor per 170 citizens. Now this is not bad for a country that has been getting a lot of bad press through the years (actually, made me recall the scenes from Sicko where Michael Moore takes the 9/11 rescue workers to Havana to get free health care and cheap medicines). Another interesting factoid is that three of the top 10 countries with low doctor patient ratios include former Soviet states, namely Russia (230:1), Turkmenistan (240:1), and Ukraine (240:1).

…try sleeping between 2 and 6 am. Here’s why:

In 2003 a team of researchers with Stanford’s School of Medicine decided to look into sleep times and its effect on sleep-deprived people (like you and me). Now, we all know that everyone, or at least most people, need at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep. In this fast-paced, sensory-overloaded, troubled modern world however, many people have succumbed to insomnia or are sleep deprived for various reasons and causes. Some people just can’t fall asleep. While others cannot even if they want to. And this just wreaks havoc on the body, as it cannot get the right amount of downtime it needs to rejuvenate tired cells and organs.