Editor’s comment: The article below discusses the importance of sleep; it links the lack of sleep to early death.
101 Health Steps Magazine has done there own investigative report and found that 9 to 11 hours of sleep a night is what is needed for the average individual because the average eats an energy draining diet. Personal stress, daily activity, and the amount of stress that people put on themselves through from digestion and eating habits contributes to additional hours of sleep. For the low-fat, raw, ripe, whole food dieter [a healthy diet], they need about 7, which includes a one hour siesta and short nap during the day (ref. Bidwell 2009 “The Health Seeker’s Yearbook).
Additionally, athlete’s could need well over 12 hours a night, even on a healthy diet, depending on their level of training and stress to recharge their human battery back to maximum levels. Most people rely on false stimulation such as coffee or worse to achieve this, which only drains their reserve energy causing even more problems. If an individual is tired, they need to sleep: drugs address the effects and sleep addresses the cause.Scientists arrived at the result after analysing data from 16 studies involving more than 1.5 million participants.
They found “unequivocal evidence” of a direct link between sleeping less than six hours a night and dying prematurely.
People who regularly had this little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a period of 25 years or less than those who got the recommended six to eight hours.
An association was also seen between sleeping more than nine hours a night and early death. This was thought to be due to long-sleeping being a marker of serious underlying illness rather than any effect of sleep itself.
Professor Francesco Cappucio, head of the Sleep, Health and Society Programme at the University of Warwick, said: “Whilst short sleep may represent a cause of ill-health, long sleep is believed to represent more an indicator of ill-health.
“Modern society has seen a gradual reduction in the average amount of sleep people take, and this pattern is more common amongst full-time workers, suggesting that it may be due to societal pressures for longer working hours and more shift-work. On the other hand, the deterioration of our health status is often accompanied by an extension of our sleeping time.”
The research, reported in the journal Sleep, reviewed 16 prospective studies from the UK, US, Europe and Asia which together monitored more than 1.3 people for up to 25 years.
In total, more than 100,000 deaths were recorded during the observation periods.
Pooling together data in this way, known as meta-analysis, can indicate patterns and trends that may not be obvious in individual studies.
Source: Press Association
Published by: 101 Healthsteps.com
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