Posted on 09/27/2007 3:28:06 PM PDT by biscuit jane
It's long been reported that a lack of sleep can be hazardous to one's health, but so can too much sleep, UK researchers report.
Researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London found that both a lack of sleep and too much sleep can more than double the risk of death in individuals, according to a study of more than 10,308 people.
Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwicks Warwick Medical School, speaking Monday to the British Sleep Society, said researchers studied data on the mortality rates and sleep patterns on the same group of civil servants at two points in their life (1985-1988 and those still alive in 1992-1993)...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Amusing headline !
If you sleep, you’re going to die.
If you don’t sleep, you’re going to die.
During my workin life I never got enough sleep. I’ve been retired for 8 years and am not caught up yet.
That’s so depressing I’m just gonna go to bed.
Great. Now my risk of dying is now 200%. I’m doomed.
Oh great! Now I’m gonna lie awake at night worrying about it!...............
LOL!!! It is no allowed to post articles from The Onion on Free Republic.
Oh wait, Fox News?
Don’t worry about it. You’ll be “asleep” a lot longer than you were ever “awake”...............
And we are supposed to be afraid of global warming because “the scientists” say so. HOOEY.
What a load of cr@p.
“LOL!!! It is no allowed to post articles from The Onion on Free Republic.
Oh wait, Fox News? “
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LOL — ya Foxn-ion News !!
Way way too much sleep or way way to little sleep ups the risk of death eight times.
It you get the perfect amount of sleep, the risk of death is only 100%.
The risk of death in individuals is at 100 percent unless Hillary Kare can somehow lower it. /snic
“And we are supposed to be afraid of global warming because the scientists say so. HOOEY.
What a load of cr@p.”
YEp. Global warming; just poke it with a pin.
Science knowledge is ever-changing. What we knew
as truth yesterday is totally de-bunked today, so indeed, how does anyone rush to judgement about crucial matters such as (man-made) global warming...?
was a time when it was accepted that:
cigarettes were healthy
cocaine was a cure
lead paint was no risk
lots of sunshine was good for ya ...
Some reasons cited for too much sleep included depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue.
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Good grief! How moronic is this? Correlation does not equal causation.
I can only quickly think of one way that headline might be so; when one is sleeping on the rairoad track.
That’s not news. People have been dying in their sleep for years. If they’d only stayed awake...
The study supposedly shows that seven hours is the sweet point - less is bad, more is worse.
As one wag said on an earlier thread, “Does that make it 200%?”
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