Bedroom secrets: How to create a healthy sleep environment

Ensure your sleeping environment is protecting you throughout the night

When we are lying prone for hours at a time, we are vulnerable in bed to both physical and respiratory problems. Ensure your bed is a nurturing, supporting place to unwind. File pictures

We slide into its embrace every night, many of us in partial or fully in the buff. 

However, how often have you thought about the kind of physical and biological pressure the mattress supporting you is actually under? In a recent report by Which the consumer group, a study by North London Waste Authority found a quarter of people sleep with their pets, 20% eat in bed on a regular basis – 8% of these respondents doing so every day.