Everybody needs a good eight hours of sleep.
A heavy meal makes you sleepy.
Snacks before bedtime arnt good for you.
Sleep before midnight is best.
Early bed,early to rse,makes a man healty,wealthy and wise
Older people nee less sleep
Are getting enough sleep?
Ask yourself:
How much sleep do i get each night during the week?
does it differ on weekends?
DO i fall asleep the minute my head hits the pilow?
Do i need alarm clock to wake me up?
If youre getting less than eight hours of sleep each night,inlcluding
weekends,or if you fall asleep instantly,or need an alrm clock to wake up,consider yourself one of millions
of chronically sleep-deprived people-perhaps blissfully ignorant of how sleepy and ineffective
you are,
The process of sleep,if given adequate=(enough or good enough)time and the proper
environment,provides tremendous power.It restores,rejuvenates and energizes the body and brain.
The third of your life that you should spend sleeping has profound effects on the other two thirds of your life,
in terms of alertness,energy,mood,body weight,perception,memory,thinking,reaction time,priductivity,performance,
communication skills,creativity,safety,and good health.
over an average lifetime thats a commitment of nearly twenty four years in bed!
Before thomas edisons invention of the electricity in 1979,most people
slept ten hours but over the next century we gradually reduced our total nightly sleep time by 20%,to eight hours per night.
But thats not nearly the end of the story.Recent studies indicate that Americans now average seven hours sleep per night.Amazingly,Foolishly.
Now sleep is not valued.With heavy demands of work,household chores,parenting an family responsibilities,and a desire for social life,exercise and recreation
,four out of ten of us are cutting back on sleep to gain time for what seems more important or interesting.
This can be an extremly costly and dangerous mistake.Stop sleeping altogether and you will die.
Allan Hobson,professor og phychiatry at harvard medical school.people who by choice or because of work,
illness,or force of circustance go without sleep for five to ten days become irrational paranoid,
confused and even hallucinatory.
