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Sleep Less, Live Longer
Linuxathome writes: "The Washington Post carried an article describing the results of a study linking the average amount of sleep one gets per night with his/her life span. It appears that those who sleep less than 8 hours a night, live longer (optimum is 7 hours). The study (link to the abstract) was aimed at looking at the mortality rate of those suffering from insomnia. But rather than associating insomnia with increased risk of death, it appears that sleeping more than 8 hours carries a much higher risk."
Personally, I'd rather sleep longer and live a shorter life.
...when I say that most of us are not often in danger of getting too much sleep ;-)
...but you'll feel like it ;-)
... there goes one of the last objections to my intraveneous caffiene drip!
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All this living longer is killing me.
So does this mean that programs that usleep() rather than sleep() have longer lifecycles?
Yeah, this is definatley one for the junk science bin.
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Besides what they dont tell you is the people who only get 7 hours of sleep are fucking miserable because they're tired their entire life.
I dont care what they say sleep is good for you
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Though I admit it would be very nice if caffeine actually did lengthen life (as opposed ot just making it seem to be lived faster) ...
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"'None of this says sleep kills people,' said Daniel Buysse, a University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist and the immediate past president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. 'You should sleep as much as you need to feel awake, alert and attentive the next day...'"
"Sleeplessness produces health consequences that were not measured in the study,"
"The study relied on people's own reports of their sleeping habits,"
(very few reported that they had "CowboyNeal" hours of sleep)
"'You can choose to eat a Twinkie or a carrot, but I can't choose to sleep 12 hours or six -- I don't have that much voluntary control.'"
I dunno. It seems pretty obvious to me that, all else being equal, people tend to sleep longer when they are unhealthy because they are unhealthy. While I hesitate to use the term... Who am I kidding? I think people who are interpreting this as "Sleep less, live longer" are total Bozos, and I think the popular press is being irresponsible in their desire for a sensational story, as usual.
this does not mean that flying to Paris every day will make you any richer.
DAMN IT!
DAMN IT! DAMN IT! DAMN IT! And I thought I was just about to strike it big....
Oh well, I guess that means I should call off my IPO.
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my ex-girlfriend is ALWAYS sleeping around...
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she's gonna die young - that's what she gets for doing what she's doing!! hehe
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Yeah later we will learn the study was sponsored by Coke, Jolt, starbucks and every other big caffine selling company.
Long live caffine!
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Sure you will live longer, but you won't remeber it.
I really had been sleeping my life away!
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