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By Joanne Eglash eDiets Healthy Lifestyle ColumnistRest... for Your Heart's SakeDo you periodically get only a few hours of sleep? The answer for most of us,

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Rest... for Your Heart's Sake
Do you periodically get only a few hours of sleep? The answer for most of us, "Well, yes." Shift workers... parents with young children (or with teens who stay out past their curfew!)... students cramming for tests... employees stressing about office work... we all have reasons why we skimp on those eight hours of snooze time.

According to a new medical study, however, even just a few days of sleep deprivation can increase your risk for heart disease. The researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's school of medicine in Philadelphia restricted the sleep of a group of healthy individuals to four hours a night for five nights. After the restricted sleeping period ended, the individuals in the study typically showed an increased strain on their hearts. The next phase of the study will examine whether periodic recovery periods can help to compensate for those lost hours of sleep. For now, the take-home (and take to bed) message is: when possible, change your habits to get those z's!

Permanent Make-Up May Have Adverse Consequences
"I feel pretty, oh so pretty..." when I take the time to apply my makeup properly. It's the time factor, though, that sometimes makes me settle for a quick dust of powder, a brush with the mascara wand, and a once-over-lightly with the lip gloss. At such times, I contemplate whether one of the so-called permanent makeup solutions might be worth the cost.

A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), however, has me rethinking that wisdom. The FDA cautions that using that type of makeup may result in adverse reactions, such as swelling, bumps, and redness in the locations where the permanent makeup has been applied. And those symptoms don't vanish overnight: the problems lingered from five months to over three years. If you've had an adverse reaction to a permanent makeup procedure, the FDA wants to hear from you: call the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Adverse Events Reporting System at 301-436-2405 or email them at caers@csfan.fda.gov.

Eat Fish: The "Eyes" Have It
If "eat more fish" has been on your goals list for a loooong time, here's yet another reason to make that goal a reality: it just may help you see the world more clearly. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, contained in fish, help to protect against deterioration of the retina, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Goteborg in Sweden, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The results of the study may have implications for a variety of eye ailments, including diabetic retinopathy, which causes blood vessels to swell and leak fluid or grow abnormally on the retina's surface, and age-related macular degeneration, shown to be a leading cause of vision loss in Americans age 60 and older.

During their research, the medical experts compared the results of a diet higher in omega-3 fatty acids than omega-6 fatty acids and one with smaller amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Those results, in addition to other studies, made it clear that omega-3 fatty acids were the winner. So if you're debating between steak and salmon tonight for dinner, skip the "moo" and get seaworthy!

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