Your Grandmother Has Recently Been Complaining About Not Sleeping Well

question 43

Multiple Choice

Your grandmother has recently been complaining about not sleeping well and not feeling rested.Given what you learned in this chapter on sleep and waking,what would be the BEST advice you could give her (other than to see her doctor for a checkup,of course) ?

• A) Make sure she eats an evening meal low in carbohydrates to minimize production of serotonin.
• B) Put the television in her bedroom and tell her to fall asleep watching the evening news.
• C) Begin to walk every day,building up to about 45 minutes to an hour a day,and keep active doing things in which she is interested.
• D) The first thing she should do is get sleeping pills from her doctor and take them every night.

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Definitions:

Alkoxymercuration

A chemical reaction process involving the addition of an alkoxy group to an alkene in the presence of mercury compounds.

Demercuration

A chemical process that involves the removal of mercury from an organic compound.

Alkene

Hydrocarbons with at least a single carbon-carbon double bond, unsaturated in nature, adhering to the formula CnH2n.

(R)-2-Ethoxybutane

A specific enantiomer of 2-ethoxybutane, which is an organic compound used in some chemical syntheses, defined by its specific three-dimensional arrangement.