How Your Sleeping Position Affects Your Health

Did you know that how you sleep can also impact your health? Let’s take a look at eight common sleeping positions and what they do to your body.

1. On Your Back, Arms at Sides

Sleeping on your back with your arms at your side is generally considered to be the best sleeping position for spine health and it’s good for your neck, too, as long as you don’t use too many pillows. That said, back sleepers tend to snore more than those in any other position and sleep apnea is strongly associated with sleeping on the back.

2. On Your Back, Arms Up

This so-called “starfish” position is also good for the back. Whether you have your arms up around your pillow or not, sleeping on your back may also help to prevent facial wrinkles and skin breakouts. However, like the arms-down back sleeping position, this one can also result in snoring and problems with acid reflux. Plus, having your arms up can put pressure on nerves in your shoulders, leading to pain.

3. Face Down

Sleeping on your stomach can improve digestion but unless you’ve developed a way to breathe through your pillow, it most likely leads to you tilting your face in one direction or the other. This can put a lot of strain on the neck. Sleeping face down can also cause back pain, as the curve of the spine is not supported.

4. Fetal Position

Sleeping all curled up into a ball with your knees drawn up and your chin tilted down might be comfortable but it can do a number on your back and neck.
The extreme curl of the fetal position can also restrict deep breathing. That considered, sleeping like a fetus can have you sleeping like a baby if you typically have problems with snoring or if you’re pregnant.

5. On Side, Arms at Sides

When you’re sleeping on your side with both arms down, the spine is best supported in its natural curve. This can definitely help reduce back and neck pain while also reducing sleep apnea. The downside? Sleeping on the side can contribute to skin aging due to gravity, meaning facial wrinkles and sagging breasts.

6. On Side, Arms Out

This position has many of the same benefits of sleeping on your side with your arms straight down. However, any side sleeping can cause shoulder and arm pain due to restricted blood flow and pressure on the nerves, which may be exacerbated by having your arms out in front of you.

7. On the Right Side

If you’re a side-sleeper, which side you sleep on also makes a difference. Sleeping on the right side can worsen heartburn while sleeping on the left side can put strain on internal organs like the liver, lungs, and stomach (while minimizing acid reflux). For pregnant sleepers, doctors typically advise sleeping on the left side, since this can improve circulation to the fetus.

8. Pillow-Supplemented

Regardless of which sleeping position you prefer, it’s highly likely that you can get a better night’s rest with less pain in the morning by supplementing your body with a pillow.
Back sleepers can put a small pillow under the arch of their spine, side sleepers can place a pillow between their knees, and stomach sleepers can place a pillow under their hips to support the joints and allow for full, pain-free relaxation.

Which sleeping position gives you the best night’s rest without pain?





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29 Year Old Nigerian Phishing Scammer Jailed for 3 Years

A 29-year-old Nigerian national was jailed on Friday 13 December 2013, for his part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted hundreds of UK students, using their compromised data to steal in excess of £1.5 million. He has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud and nine months imprisonment for money laundering, to run consecutively.

Olajide Onikoyi, 29, living in Manchester, UK was among a number of cyber criminals who targeted students by sending them emails inviting them to update details on their student loan account via a link to a bogus website.

When the site was accessed by the unsuspecting victims, Onikoyi was able to gain unauthorised access to their bank accounts and extract large amounts of money. One victim had £19,000 taken from their account. Onikoyi laundered £393,000 from 238 victims in total.

The scam was identified following a successful operation by detectives from the now-disbanded MPS Police Central e-Crime Unit.

Detective Chief Inspector Jason Tunn, of the MPS Cyber Crime Unit, said: “My officers worked doggedly to secure Onikoyi’s conviction. They examined numerous leads to identify members of this phishing gang, of which Onikoyi was a key member.

“He played a significant role in the scam by systematically targeting British students and UK financial institutions in order to steal large amounts of money that were then dispersed across numerous bank accounts.”

On 8 December 2012, working with colleagues from Greater Manchester Police, detectives executed search warrants at addresses in London and Manchester. A number of computers and associated storage media were seized from the properties and their contents examined, leading the investigators to identify Onikoyi’s involvement.

He was subsequently arrested when a further series of warrants was executed with the Serious Organised Crime Agency in Manchester on 9 January this year.

Detectives seized his computer, from which they recovered chat logs from cyber crime forums. These revealed Onikoyi was conspiring with others from Russia, Lithuania and the UK in order to compromise computers and associated bank accounts.

He was charged the following day and subsequently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud UK financial institutions of £393,000 and money laundering on 10 December.

On 9 December, Ruth Smith-Ajala, 44 (25.04.69), a Nigerian national of Redlands Way, SW2 was sentenced to five years imprisonment for conspiracy to defraud, at Southwark Crown Court. A further five individuals were arrested as part of the investigation. Of those, four were released with no further action.


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Woman posts advert hoping to reunite with mystery New Year's Eve kisser who URINATED on her then ran away

An American woman has posted a Craigslist advert searching for a reunion with the stranger who wet himself while standing next to her

Unlikely romance: A woman refused to let urine put a dampener on her New Year's celebrations (Getty)

A heartbroken woman has made a desperate online plea to be reunited with her mystery New Year's Eve kisser - despite the fact he urinated on her.
The unconventional love story took place place in Bloomington, Indiana, where the lucky lady was treated to a midnight kiss from the "scruffy" stranger.
The fateful kiss had apparently taken place shortly after she had burst into tears, but she was then confronted with some water works of her own when the man relieved himself on her and ran away.
Although this would be enough to make most people run for the hills, the intrigued woman posted an advert on Craigslist looking to be REUNITED with her weak-bladdered Casanova.
She confided that even after she "felt something warm" leak onto her leg, her enthusiasm wasn't dampened and she wished he had stayed.
However, despite being forgiving, the anonymous poster is determined not to be duped by any potential imposters - she has even provided specific instructions so that she could recognise legitimate replies.
"Please reply and when you do tell me why I started crying so I know it's you - if you remember".

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It's a baby girl! 2face and Annie Idibia welcome second child together

Reports have it that 2face Idibia and his wife, Annie, have welcomed their second child together.

The actress/model delivered the baby girl  yesterday  in Atlanta.

Both mother and child are doing fine.

2face and Annie got married last year and already have a daughter.

Congrats!





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Brown rice, brown bread, brown sugar, etc...Are Brown Foods Really Better?

Brown rice vs. white rice is one of the main food debates today. Eating brown foods automatically makes your diet healthier, right?

Not necessarily. So which brown foods matter the most?

Brown Sugar: No. Sugar is sugar. The major differences between turbinado sugar, otherwise known as “natural” or “raw” sugar, and white sugar are the size of crystals and the presence of molasses, which gives darker sugar its color. Otherwise they have about the same amount of calories and carbohydrates, says Jo-Anne Rizzotto, M.S., R.D., former education specialist at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

Brown Rice: Yes. “Unlike white rice, where nutrients are stripped away, brown rice still has the whole grain in one piece, so it’s full of fiber, vitamins and minerals,” says Rachel Brandeis, M.S., R.D., an Atlanta-based spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

Brown Bread: Not Necessarily. “Some manufacturers add caramel coloring in place of whole-grain flour to achieve a brown color,” says Brandeis. The first word in the list of ingredients should be whole, signifying that the grain is still intact. But the next doesn’t have to be wheat. Any whole grain — oat, corn or rye — is rich in fiber and antioxidants.

Brown Eggs: No. The only difference between a white and a brown egg is the color of the shell, and that’s determined by the hen’s breed. Still, not all eggs are created equal. Some farmers fortify chicken feed with nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids or vitamins, which end up in the yolk, making a truly good egg.

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