Too Much Sleep Can Kill You

Communicator and all around nice chap, Neville Hobson, points to an article from the Financial Times regarding the danger of sleep.

The most notable point to my eye was that death rates increased in members of the population getting over 8 hours sleep, where 8 hours is the mark that we are commonly advised to aim for.

A reason for this wasn't offered but I'll throw in my two cents. My opinion is that two type of people sleep this long and skew the death rate. Firstly, observation would say hospitalised population with quite frankly little else to do, are likely candidates. The second type would be the depressed or otherwise "down" person. I've plenty of personal experience of that in the past to back that one up.

As for the right amount of sleep, the prominent spiel that I hear every time this subject comes up is that it depends on the person. I believe that. You're job for giving your body the right amount of sleep is to give it a regular pattern to work with and evaluate what makes you feel best throughout the day.

More time being spent in comfort sleeping is less time awake and enjoying life.

That's why your successful people get by on less sleep. You don't get successful without loving the effort and challenge of a day, therefore sleep is only treated as the natural necessary regenerative process that it is and not a comfort.

Surely comfort sleeping is just as bad as comfort eating...

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