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Soothing music is the best sleeping pill!: [Health India]: London, Feb 03 : Stop taking sleeping pills and switch on your radio set if you are not having a sound sleep, as a new research has revealed that 45 minutes of relaxing music before bedtime can make for a restful night. For the research, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the Taiwanese researchers studied the sleeping patterns of 60 elderly people with sleep problems and found that the technique not only ensured a restful sleep but also lacked any side-effects unlike other treatments. During the course of research, the participants were either given a choice of listening to music before going to sleep or nothing at all. Those who preferred music could select from six tapes that featured soft music, jazz, folk or orchestral pieces. The researchers found that listening to music caused physical changes that aided restful sleep, including a lower heart and respiratory rate. These people reported 35 percent improvement in their sleep and less dysfunction during daytime. "The music group reported a 26 percent overall improvement in the first week and this figure continued to rise as they mastered the technique of relaxing into sedative music," BBC quoted professor Hui-Ling Lai, the lead author of the study, as saying. (ANI)
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