How many hours of sleep a night do you get? Did you know that if you aren’t sleeping enough, you might be setting yourself up for a whole mess of health problems. I guess 70ish years ago, most Americans got an average of 8+ hours of sleep each night. I wasn’t at all surprised to read that amount is now 20% less {around 6.7 hours of sleep a night) given how many devices distract us, the growing number of caffeine addicts (those Monster drinks are scary full of the stuff!), the fact there are TVs in bedrooms now, and the fact that we live in a world where working more and sleeping less is praised and often expected!
I read this article that talked all about the health ramifications of not getting enough sleep. It’s scary stuff, you guys!
“Every major disease that is killing us in the developed world: Alzheimer’s, cancer, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression, suicide. All of them have direct now and very strong causal links to deficient sleep.”
Yikes! These days I tend to do best with 7 hours of sleep and NO caffeine, but I went years getting much much less than the recommended amount of sleep. There was just too much to do and not enough hours in the day! They said that based on 10,000+ research study papers, they’ve proven the number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep or less and show no impairment, rounded to a whole number and expressed as a percent, is zero. ZERO. No one can survive on 6 hours of sleep on a routine basis without impairment. So that pretty much means for years I was walking around sleep impaired. Oops!
How many hours of sleep do you get? Do you play on your phone before you hit the sheets? Watch TV? Read? Do you see a direct correlation between number of hours slept and your health? Or have you never really required that much sleep? What are your thoughts on this?
Zzzzzz,
~Mavis
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