{"id":905,"date":"2008-08-09T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/one-in-five-americans-need-pills-to-sleep\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T17:00:11","slug":"one-in-five-americans-need-pills-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/one-in-five-americans-need-pills-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"One in Five Americans Need Pills to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are an increasingly medicated population. Some of us rightly so, while others&#8230; not so much.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/sleep-disorders\/news\/20080805\/good-nights-sleep-eludes-many-in-us?src=RSS_PUBLIC\" title=\"Consumer Reports\">Consumer Reports<\/a> just published a survey that says one in five Americans uses medicine at least once a week to help them go to sleep. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sleep.jpg\" title=\"sleep\" alt=\"sleep\" align=\"right\" height=\"141\" width=\"204\" \/>The findings are based on a survey of 1,466 adults in the U.S. by the Consumer Reports National Research Center in April 2026. Previous studies have shown that proper amounts of sleep (7-8 hours) can actually help you lose weight, with appetite-regulating hormones in the body being at proper levels with the well rested.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m obviously not a statistician, but in my amateur opinion, this seems like flimsy evidence, only because the sample size is so small. One in five? Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised, since we live such stressful non-stop lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are an increasingly medicated population. Some of us rightly so, while others&#8230; not so much. Consumer Reports just published a survey that says one in five Americans uses medicine at least once a week to help them go to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/one-in-five-americans-need-pills-to-sleep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[2020,31,688],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-consumer-reports","tag-health-news","tag-sleep"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}