Additionally, school feeding programs are increasingly being viewed as a potential safety net and as a social support measure that helps keep children in school.
The first REM sleep period usually occurs about 70 to 90 minutes after we fall asleep. A complete sleep cycle takes 90 to 110 minutes on average. The first sleep cycles each night contain relatively short REM periods and long periods of deep sleep.
Because of this loss of muscle tone, REM sleep in horses only occurs during lateral recumbency, or when a horse can lie in sternal and lean heavily against something. Horses spend only about a total of an hour in REM sleep over a 24 hour period. Horses that donât lie down and arenât experiencing deep sleep might exhibit signs of sleep deprivation. A sleep deprived horse could repeatedly get very drowsy then collapse to his knees and suddenly wake back up (Dr.