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Multiple study results suggest that people who commonly nap have a higher risk of high blood pressure and having a heart stroke. The study found that people who nap during the day are at an increased risk of stroke and high blood pressure compared with people who don't nap. Clinical psychologist Michael Grandner, who directs the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at Banner-University Medical Center in Tucson and was not involved in the study, said this may be because poor sleep at night is associated with poorer health, which naps are not enough to make up for. Sleeping at least four hours at night raises high blood pressure by 20 to 30 points over people who never or rarely sleep, according to research on sleep habits published Monday in the journal Hypertension, an American Heart Ass...

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, families who breastfeed their children need support. This requires social and systemic changes when it comes to workplace access and feeding stigma. The pediatricians association's most recent guidance stressed the recommendation that infants be fed exclusively with human milk for the first six months of life before other nutritious foods are introduced. "Human milk is all a baby needs for the first six months of life," said Dr. Joan Younger Meek, lead author of the reports, written by the AAP section on breastfeeding. "Breast milk is unique in its nutrients and protective effects, and really quite remarkable when you look at what it does for a child's developing immune system." Meek is professor emeritus of clinical sciences at Florida Stat...