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 Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:20 am Post subject: Time to 'reclaim the night' for sleep |
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| Quote: | We all know the health risks of smoking, drinking and eating too much. But sleep expert Neil Stanley says we don't pay attention to the risks of having too little sleep.
In this week's Scrubbing Up health column, he warns it is time to "reclaim the night".
Good sleep is vital for good physical mental and emotional health - but unfortunately we seem to live in a society that has forgotten this fact.
In terms of healthy living, sleep is as important as good diet and exercise. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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I've always said the same. You only have to look at the state of someone who gets too little sleep to see the damage it does. They look haggard, grey and older than their years and catch every cold and bug that's going around.
Some folks actually think it's something to boast about when they can manage on less sleep than the rest of us, it mystifies me 
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I must be soooooo beautiful - I love sleep! 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Yes I must admit to liking sleep, and you are right Julie it is something that I have always felt vaguely ashamed of lol
Trouble is that left to my own devices I would be almost nocturnal. They make me go to bed when I am awake and then wake me up when I'm sleepy.
My ideal would be to bed at 2-3am and up at 10-11ish. But life isn't geared for those sort of hours lol
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| Julie wrote: | I've always said the same. You only have to look at the state of someone who gets too little sleep to see the damage it does. They look haggard, grey and older than their years and catch every cold and bug that's going around.
Some folks actually think it's something to boast about when they can manage on less sleep than the rest of us, it mystifies me |
I can get by with less sleep than my wife, but I do need sleep (mostly in the morning ). Didn't get much last night though, wasn't home until close to 3am and then up as normal for work... will be needing sleep tonight I think  |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| Sassinak wrote: | They make me go to bed when I am awake and then wake me up when I'm sleepy.
My ideal would be to bed at 2-3am and up at 10-11ish. But life isn't geared for those sort of hours lol |
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We reckon she's a vampire because she hates garlic too
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pah! you can sleep when you're dead.
The night is for living!
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Oh, I'm a bedbug, me. I like to be in my bed just behind 10pm and stay there till 8am if I could. Have to be up at 6.30 though *sob*
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