__/ [ Big Bill ] on Monday 29 May 2006 18:03 \__
> On Mon, 29 May 2006 03:23:03 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>__/ [ normc ] on Friday 26 May 2006 04:32 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> __/ [ normc ] on Wednesday 24 May 2006 19:45 \__
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I thought that this following new article on sleep would be interesting
>>>>>>to some.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>http://www.economist.com/intelligentlife/wellbeing/displayStory.cfm?story_id=6909483
>>>>
>>>>>>,----[ Snippet ]
>>>>>>| But a new, contrarian school of thought is emerging. The eight-hours
>>>>>>| mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy, says Neil
>>>>>>| Stanley,
>>>>>>| head of sleep research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit
>>>>>>| at the University of Surrey in Britain. He believes that everyone has
>>>>>>| their own individual 'sleep need' which can be anywhere between three
>>>>>>| and 11 hours. If you're a three-hour-a-night person, you need three;
>>>>>>| if you're 11, you need 11.? To find out, he says, simply sleep until
>>>>>>| you wake naturally, without the aid of an alarm clock. Feel rested?
>>>>>>| That's your sleep need.
>>>>>>`----
>>>>>
>>>>> From http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=43973
>>>>>
>>>>>Sleep More Important Than Diet For Weight Control
>>>>>
>>>>>What constitutes a good night's sleep? For this study, the researchers
>>>>>observed the effect sleeping five or fewer hours regularly has on a
>>>>>woman's weight over the medium and long term. They compared them to
>>>>>women who managed to regularly get 7 hours' sleep each night.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's quite surprising. I would have thought that, since sleep requires
>>>> less energy (reduced heart pulse rate), this would actually have the
>>>> adverse effect. According to this study, lack of sleep leads to weight
>>>> gain...
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Roy
>>>
>>> That's the way I read it. However, next year they may find that men are
>>> different than women. That test was only with the latter.
>>
>>Great. So now I feel guilty if I undersleep and guilty if I oversleep.
>>Something's gotta give... *smile*
>
> You don't want to be like me... oh, but you knew that!
Well, I saw you in this group before. Generally, it all started with the
innocent conversation about the Economist article, which seemed to have
generated a lot of discussions in other sites (more recently). It would be
intersting, I think, to find the ideal sleep habits/duration. It's somewhat
of a black art or imprecise science, as it seems.
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