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Our Latex Mattress and Air Bed Buying Guides

Get the low down on latex mattresses and air beds with Healthy Foundations’ latex mattress and air bed buyers’ guides.

Every year we go to specialty sleep shows and check out the latest trends in the specialty sleep market. While we have concentrated on our niche, memory foam, I have spent a lot of time looking at latex mattresses and air beds as well. Both latex mattresses and air beds are rising niches in bedding, and they both have some distinctive points to offer. Latex mattresses have become very popular in Europe and are slowly gaining speed in the US. Latex offers a very resilient core to a bed, and lasts virtually forever. I like the feel of latex, and I’ve seen some beds using a latex core with memory foam on the top that are very nice. The downside of latex? Very pricey.

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Natural Latex Mattress Benefits

Thinking about a new mattress?  Tired of tossing and turning and sleeping in that crater in the middle of your innerspring bed?  Perhaps you are thinking about a memory foam mattress or an all natural latex mattress.  Both are great choices, but today I’m going to talk a little bit about natural latex mattresses.

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Exercise: Sleep’s Best Friend

Want to sleep better? Who doesn’t? It’s funny how our ancestors never had trouble sleeping.  People used to walk places, work in the fields, do manual labor… Now we have machines to do all that and save us time, yet many people still say they don’t have time to exercise.

Research shows that even small increases in exercise, like a daily half-hour walk, can improve your sleep and your health.  The one caveat to this is that you should not exercise close to your bed time.  That will actually make it difficult to wind down and to fall asleep.

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Fragmented Sleep and Its Effect on Health

As the wife of a career fire captain who is retiring in six months after 33 years of service, the article, The Trouble with Sleep: A hidden hazard to firefighters’ health, really resonated with me.  The health problems associated with fragmented sleep include not only problems with mental health, but an increased incidence of everything from diabetes to heart attack to stroke.  So are firefighters the only ones at risk due to their choppy sleep habits?  Unfortunately, firefighters, medical residents, and the like are not the only ones at risk these days.  Here’s why…

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Memory Foam Mattress or Natural Latex Mattress: Both Equal Great Sleep

Is it time for a new mattress?  Maybe you are tired of tossing and turning or rolling into that crater in the middle of your old innerspring mattress.  Perhaps it’s time to think about two of the most comfortable mattresses around — the memory foam mattress and the natural latex mattress.

A memory foam mattress is temperature sensitive and uses this temperature sensitivity to mold to the contours of your body.  This reduces pressure points and the need to toss and turn to get comfortable.  Once you do change positions, the memory foam “remembers” its shape and gently molds to your new sleeping position.

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Memory Foam Mattresses: Comfortable Support for All Your Nooks and Crannies

Does a body really have nooks and crannies?  I think that may be an English muffin.  I think a body has curves and contours, but at least you knew what I was talking about.

A memory foam mattress is extremely comfortable.  It’s temperature sensitive which means it uses your body’s heat to gently mold to all of your individual curves and contours.  It does the same thing for your sleeping partner’s completely different curves and contours.  Memory foam reduces pressure points and the need to toss and turn to get comfortable.  When you do change positions, memory foam “remembers” its shape and then gently settles in to your new sleeping position.

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How to Select a Latex Mattress

A came across this blog, Your Guideline On How To Select Latex Mattress, but it really leaves a lot to be desired.  One thing the blog does have spot-on, however, is the fact that the popularity of latex mattresses is on the rise.

One thing that I find that irks me is when a writer uses the terms “latex mattress” and “natural latex mattress” interchangeably.  Up to eighty percent of latex mattresses are synthetically made using unnatural petrochemicals.  If you want a true natural latex mattress, you need to make sure that your natural latex mattress is 100% natural and botanically derived.

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Memory Foam Mattresses: The Importance of a Good Mattress for Great Sleep

Getting enough good sleep is one of the most important factors affecting our health, our productivity, our mood, and every aspect of our lives.  We spend more than one-third of our life in bed, yet many people skimp when it comes to purchasing a new mattress.  Many years ago, I found this to be true from personal experience.  Once I replaced my old, worn out spring mattress, my sleep improved tremendously.

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Quality Sleep: One of the Keys to Quality Sleep is a Great Mattress

Many of us do not get enough sleep.  Experts say that most adults need seven to nine hours of sleep and that getting less than six hours of sleep can bring on negative side effects to one’s health.  There is a lot of information out there about improving sleep, so let’s take a look at a few tips for sleeping better.

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Memory Foam Mattress: The Absolute Only Way to Know if a Memory Foam Mattress is Right for You

Have you been thinking about buying a memory foam mattress?  Maybe you’d like to try one but you’re not sure whether or not you’ll like it.  Is there one hard and fast way to know if a memory foam mattress will work for you?  Fortunately, there is.

I came across an article entitled Best Memory Foam Mattress Buying Guide which is one person’s attempt at guiding memory foam mattress purchasers into making the right memory foam decision.  The writer means well, but there is one rule she missed — the in-home trial for an extended period.  This author says you should test a memory foam mattress for at least 30 days in your own home.  I insist that the in-home trial should be at least 180 days.

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