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.
Weird timing; when your email arrived we were sitting here planning the finer/final details of a research project specifically on the role of the feet in body temperature (in relation to sleep). The reader is correct - feet do have a big impact on body temperature, and more so in sleep. The feet are ideally suited to helping us keep a stable body temperature, for a few reasons. They - like the hands - have a large surface area as well as specialised blood vessels which can be opened up to pass high volumes of blood through them and therefore offload heat quickly when required.