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Share on Pinterest Daylight saving time comes to an end this Sunday. Gaining an hour can affect your circadian rhythm and potentially disrupt your sleep patterns. But if your sleep is disrupted for a long period of time, experts say you can get help. Before going to bed tonight, many Americans will be setting their clocks back by an hour. Daylight saving time officially comes to end at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, when standard time begins. You might be looking forward to getting an extra hour of sleep that night, but the amount of rest that you get will depend in part on your sleep habits. If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t wake up until your alarm clock rings, you might get some extra rest, but only if you go to bed at your normal hour. “If you actually went to bed at your usual time and took advantage of it, yes, you possibly could get an extra hour of sleep,”  Dr. Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg , FAASM , FAAN, the director of sleep medicine at Millennium Phy...

Heart attack survivors who carry extra weight around their belly are at greater risk of another heart attack, new research has found, another reason why measuring your waist may be more important than stepping on the scale. It's been known for a while that having a pot belly, even if you are slim elsewhere, increases the odds of having a first heart attack, but the latest study, which published Monday in the European Journal of Preventative Cardiology, is the first time researchers have found a link between belly fat and the risk of a subsequent heart attack or stroke. The link was particularly strong in men, researchers said. " Abdominal obesity not only increases your risk for a first heart attack or stroke, but also the risk for recurrent events after the first misfortune," said Dr. Hanieh Mohammadi of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, in a news release. "Maintaining a healthy waist circumference is important for preventing future hear...