May 25, 2010 -- Consumer Reports Health has issued a new ranking of the six repellents it says are best to ward off mosquitoes and deer ticks. The magazine says it tested 10 insect repellents in an outside laboratory, where volunteers let deer ticks crawl on them and also exposed themselves to mosquitoes.
Keep Your Cool to Sleep Better. Your body temperature can affect how well you sleep. Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam found that people slept better when their skin was slightly cooled.
1 Alcohol is a stimulant that can disrupt your sleep, so avoid it at dinnertime and for the rest of the evening. 2  And caffeine activates alertness and stress hormones that can affect your body for 8 hours or more. 3  Keep your room and body cool. 4  Your body core temperature has to drop in order for you to fall asleep.