Mattress, Beds and Sleep: Invest in your Health

Anyone who has spent many a night unable to settle on their mattress knows beds can make a huge difference. If mattresses or beds are lumpy, uncomfortable, sagging or just feel a bit too old and squalid, a new mattress can transform how you feel about hitting the hay. With advances in mattress and beds technology, including memory foam developed by NASA scientists to help astronauts cope with G-Forces means there's no excuse not to have a comfortable night's sleep.

Mattress, Beds: Revolutionary Materials

Whatever your budget, it's possible to buy a quality mattress or mattress topper even if you can't afford new beds. But even if you're reluctant to spend the money on a mattress or beds, it's time to reassess your priorities in life. Sleep deprivation can impact heavily on your health. Although, like smoking, health warnings don't seem to be enough to make people change their habits – the fact that it could impact on your looks too might prompt more to think about their mattress and beds. Researchers at the National Institute for Mental Health in America show that sleep deprivation could promote obesity.

Mattress, Beds: A Weighty Issue

A good quality mattress and bed can help you achieve an uninterrupted night's sleep. And the link between lack of sleep and weight has been one that scientists have researched for some time. Hormones that control our feelings of fullness are thought to be lowered when we are deprived of sleep leading us to eat more. So if you want to avoid piling on the pounds, investing in a new mattress could help. A comfortable mattress and bed could help you achieve a good night's sleep – ideally those who slept nine hours or more in scientific studies had a lower average body mass than those who slept less than five hours.

Invest in a Quality Mattress

As well as weight you might want to consider investing in a high quality mattress and beds when you consider that poor sleep patterns impact on your mental and physical well being. Research shows shift workers who disrupt their sleep routine suffer more from feelings of stress, are at greater risk of depression, suffer stress related gastro-intestinal problems and diabetes, as well as obesity. Further studies have looked at the increased risk of coronary heart disease and blood pressure levels. Disrupting natural sleep rhythms because of work patterns, distracting TVs or music, or simply because of an uncomfortable mattress, impacts heavily on our health. It also leads to increased risks as research shows night workers make more serious mistakes than day workers. The fact that the Selby train crash was attributed to a car driver who had been awake all night on the computer illustrates how serious tiredness can be. As well as eliminating distractions, take time to make your bedroom a place of relaxation; see your mattress and beds as places to be invested in. An investment in the quality of your sleep is clearly an investment in your health.

Snug memory foam mattresses are designed and manufactured with your best night's sleep in mind. All the mattresses are available online and direct from Snug only and our aim is to give you the best-performing mattresses and the best customer service available. Our memory foam mattresses are hypo-allergenic, temperature sensitive and come complete with 5 or 15 year guarantees. You can shop online straight away, or call us on 0800 0277017 if you need help with anything.