Guest guest Posted February 19, 2002 Report Share Posted February 19, 2002 ** LONGER NIGHT'S SLEEP LINKED TO INCREASED DEATH RATE Sleep hogs beware. A new study suggests that individuals who sleep eight hours or more a night actually have an increased death rate compared to those who average fewer hours. Study subjects who slept seven hours a night had the best survival rates. Those sleeping eight hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die over the course of the study than were those sleeping seven hours a night. http://sciam.rsc03.net/servlet/cc?lJpDUWEmhiiLkFJJpgLmDJhtE0EXWZ _____________ Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2002 Report Share Posted February 19, 2002 - " the desert_rat " <ron <thyroid >; Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:38 AM sleeping > ** LONGER NIGHT'S SLEEP LINKED TO INCREASED DEATH RATE > Sleep hogs beware. A new study suggests that individuals who sleep > eight hours or more a night actually have an increased death rate > compared to those who average fewer hours. Study subjects who slept > seven hours a night had the best survival rates. Those sleeping eight > hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die over the course of > the study than were those sleeping seven hours a night. > http://sciam.rsc03.net/servlet/cc?lJpDUWEmhiiLkFJJpgLmDJhtE0EXWZ > Now that goes against my deeply held beliefs! Not saying the study is wrong, but I am suspicious. Dr. Schwarzbein recommends not stinting on sleep. Other places I have read (sorry, no references handy) have linked increased health problems in the population at large with the decrease in sleep hours per night over the past 150 years. Another study (sorry no references again) I read a while back talked about increased long term health risks for those who regularly got less than 7 hours of sleep because they were working hard or out partying. I will try to keep my mind open on this one, but for now I will still go for 7-1/2 hours a night plus a 45 minute siesta before I go to work in the evening. Alobar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2002 Report Share Posted February 19, 2002 I've read the statistics from this study, and I think that the conclusions that it's being claimed to show are probably not the correct conclusions. First, people who feel okay on only 7 hours of sleep are probably fairly healthy to begin with. So of course they'll live longer. The longer people need to sleep in order to feel rested, the more likely they are sleeping that long because they aren't healthy. I think it is a mistake to misconstrue the statistics found in the study to encourage people to get less sleep, because the study didn't study the effects of purposefully cutting short the amount of sleep a person gets. I doubt you could get 1.1 million people to cooperate in that kind of study. They studied the death rates in comparison to the average amount of sleep that people were choosing to get. In other words, if you want to sleep less, you need to start by improving your health. Improve your health, and you won't need to sleep so long and the improved health will be why you live longer, not the lessened amount of sleep. I would assume that to do otherwise, you're just robbing your body of much needed recuperation/healing time, and you'll only end up damaging your health more. They mentioned that they haven't studied if setting your alarm clock earlier will actually improve your health. Unfortunately, people are reading this kind of thing and trying to apply it in their lives by limiting their sleep, and then they'll end up wondering why it doesn't seem to be working for them. Linda Jones lindaj - " the desert_rat " <ron <thyroid >; Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:38 AM sleeping > ** LONGER NIGHT'S SLEEP LINKED TO INCREASED DEATH RATE > Sleep hogs beware. A new study suggests that individuals who sleep > eight hours or more a night actually have an increased death rate > compared to those who average fewer hours. Study subjects who slept > seven hours a night had the best survival rates. Those sleeping eight > hours a night were 12 percent more likely to die over the course of > the study than were those sleeping seven hours a night. > http://sciam.rsc03.net/servlet/cc?lJpDUWEmhiiLkFJJpgLmDJhtE0EXWZ > _____________ > Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at > http://www.mail2world.com > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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