Due to the fact that I seem to be working most of my waking hours, I found this article, from the AFP, about the dangers of getting less than six hours of sleep a night very interesting. Typically, I sleep about five hours a night. According to the article:
“If you sleep little, you can develop diabetes, obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol,” Francesco Cappuccio, who led research on the subject at Britain’s University of Warwick, told AFP.
The study, conducted with the Federico II University in Naples, Italy, aggregated decade-long studies from around the world involving more than 1.3 million people and found “unequivocal evidence of the direct link” between lack of sleep and premature death.
“We think that the relation between little sleep and illness is due to a series of hormonal and metabolical mechanisms,” Cappuccio said.
In the article, it is stated that society is to fault for our lack of sleep. I just don’t believe that. Does society force me to work two jobs? No. My expenses do that. Does society make me stay up late watching something on tv or reading a book? No. I enjoy those things.
Will I ever like getting up early to go to work? No, but I have been doing it for years.
Who is to blame for our lack of sleep?
