Short sleep is OK!

This is the thought conveyed in the article that I read a while ago at Yahoo. It really interests me since I only have short sleep everyday.

Here's a script from the article and it's an explanation from the study of Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, California:

Q: How much sleep is ideal?

A: Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hours or more, or less than 6.5 hours, they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hours. Sleeping 8.5 hours might really be a little worse than sleeping five.

It was also indicated the article that " spending less time in bed actually makes sleep better. It is in fact a more powerful and effective long-term treatment for insomnia than sleeping pills".

Hmmm the article really uplifts my spirit, atleast, I'm no longer that guilty for sleeping less everyday,:)

To read the entire article, just click here.

Side note: That's me sleeping, taken last summer 2007.

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