Snooze-it or loose-it
July 3, 2014
Sleep deprivation has long
been associated with negative
health impacts such as workplace
accidents and automobile accidents,
obesity, high blood pressure, type 2
diabetes, depression, heart attacks
and strokes according to the US
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
USA Today has reported that CDC
data show 28% of US adults sleep six
hours or less per night, leading the
organisation to describe insufficient
sleep “a public health epidemic.”
Sleep is now considered to be “one
of the components of a three-legged
stool of wellness: nutrition, exercise
and sleep,” says Safwan Badr, a past
president of the American Academy
of Sleep Medicine and a sleep
expert with Detroit Medical Center
and Wayne State University.
“The three are synergistic,” he
says, with mutually enhancing effect.
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