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Sleep is the New Sex…

July 13th, 2006

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: polyphasic sleepers aside [Hacking your Sleep Patterns(10/17/05), Counter-Point: Sleep Hacking Kills (10/18/05)], most americans don’t get enough sleep.

Susan Nielsen says in an Op-ed in the Seattle Times:

“Sleep is the new sex, as the experts in sleep disorders like to say. Men think about it every seven seconds or so. Women romanticize it. Teenagers yearn for the weekends, when they might get a little of it.”

“…the collective fatigue is growing. People sleep nearly an hour less each night than they did two generations ago, according to historic estimates of sleep patterns. High-school seniors are among the most sleep-deprived, getting about two hours less each weeknight than the nine hours they need.”

While this isn’t exactly hard-edge health news reportage, it is a good reminder- catch your Z’s!

Read More:
Wake up to the reality of sleep deprivation[Seattle Times]
via MeFi

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