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Are You Having Enough Sleep? If you did not have enough sleep for the night, you will probably find yourself unable to cope with all of your next day’s activities. Because of Internet surfing, late-night Television watching and other distractions, more Americans are getting lesser sleeps. This is the findings revealed on February 28, 2008 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The sleeplessness can seriously affect people’s mental and physical health. Sleep experts even associate chronic sleep loss with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, excessive drinking, high blood pressure, obesity, smoking and stroke. Of the 19,589 adults in 4 states (New York, Hawaii, Delaware and Rhode Island) surveyed by CDC, 10 percent of these subjects did not get enough sleep or rest every single day of the prior month, and 38 percent of them did not get enough in 7 or more days in the prior month. The survey asked people how many days in the prior month they got insufficient rest or sleep, without asking specifically how many hours they slept.
The four-state survey also found that younger adults are more likely than older adults to report getting very little sleep. Overall, 30 percent of respondents said they got enough sleep every day of the past month, and 33 percent got too little on 1 to 6 days in the prior month. Meanwhile, CDC also released nationwide data collected separately showing that across all age groups, the percentage of adults reporting sleeping 6 hours or less a night increased from 1985 to 2006. The guidelines recommended by the National Sleep Foundation for adults is 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night, for children ages 5 to 12 is 9 to 11 hours, and for those 11 to 17 is 8 and a half to 9 and a half hours. Sleep is vital for human beings. We should be sleeping during the night but instead, we are doing all sorts of other things like Internet surfing, television watching, etc. without realizing that chronic sleep loss will eventually lead us to many physical and health issues later on. Data showed that in United States, several thousand of people died on roads yearly in accidents involving drowsy drivers. The CDC also indicated that some 50 to 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders in a country of 300 million. People who often get too little sleep are urged to see a doctor to find out whether the sleeplessness is due to lifestyle issues or sleeping disorder. Avoiding caffeine or other stimulants before bedtime may also help people to establish a regular sleep schedule. Perhaps people who like to watch late night movies should record them down and watch them over the weekend instead of sacrificing their valuable sleep during the night.
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