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Look at the time now (8:15am) and i'm still awake! Wat's worse, i dun feel sleepy! *faintz* My "internal alarm system" gone all haywired and all the while i'd never bothered... But... out of a sudden, my "style" is kinda frightening me... after readin some articles... ... ...
Eileen came into my room, tellin me tat she couldn't get to sleep even after lying on the bed for a time... She was hungry & asked me if i wana eat instant noodles... Her plot! She wanted me to cook for her lor.. Kaoz... Cos her mee-cookin' suckz! keke.. Well... I "onz" her anyway.. Hee... Come to tink of it... Sinful.. ..AGAIN!!!
While i was cookin the noodles... she stood beside me and we chatted... She said a friend of hers guessed tat maybe MC KING's death... is due to lack of sleep...? Hmmm.. Frankly i wasn't much surprised to hear tis reason as a death cause.. Heard of cases like dat previously..
Since i'd jus eaten and couldn't get to sleep yet, out of curiosity, i web-searched under 'death due to lack of sleep'... and a list of results was presented, linkin' to quite a handful of articles that explain WHY SLEEP IS IMPORTANT TO US...
Gosh..!
After some browsin thru... i reli tink i shd do something to change my sleepin habits or else, i'll be endangering myself!!! *faintz*
Death from Lack of Sleep - Forum Discussion
eg. Death of net game addicts alert others
and...
Anyone knws it'll lead to OBESITY??!
Lack of Sleep May Lead to Excess Weight
Specifically, the study found that subjects between the ages of 32 and 59 who slept four hours or less per night were 73 percent more likely to be obese than those who slept between seven and nine hours each night. People who got only five hours of sleep had a 50 percent higher risk than those who were getting a full night's rest. Those who got six hours of sleep were just 23 percent more likely to be substantially overweight.
"The results are somewhat counterintuitive, since people who sleep less are naturally burning more calories," said lead researcher James Gangwisch, a post-doctoral fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University. "But we think it has more to do with what happens to your body when you deprive it of sleep as opposed to the amount of physical activity that you get. Other studies have shown that leptin levels decrease and grehlin levels increase in people who are sleep-deprived, leading to increased appetite and consumption."
Why would that happen? According to Gangwisch, one possible answer can be found in looking back at our early forebears. "The metabolic regulatory system may have evolved to motivate humans to store fat during summer months when the nights are shorter and food is plentiful, which was a survival mechanism for the body to prepare for the dark winter months when food would not be as plentiful," said Gangwisch. "As a result, sleeping less could serve as a trigger to the body to increase food intake and store fat."
(September 25, 2007 - Insidermedicine) From Cambridge - Burning the midnight oil may be hazardous to your health. A 17-year study on over 10,000 government workers has shown that those who cut their sleep from 7 hours to 5 hours per day had a 70% increase in death from all causes and a two-fold increase in death due to cardiovascular disease.
Eileen came into my room, tellin me tat she couldn't get to sleep even after lying on the bed for a time... She was hungry & asked me if i wana eat instant noodles... Her plot! She wanted me to cook for her lor.. Kaoz... Cos her mee-cookin' suckz! keke.. Well... I "onz" her anyway.. Hee... Come to tink of it... Sinful.. ..AGAIN!!!
While i was cookin the noodles... she stood beside me and we chatted... She said a friend of hers guessed tat maybe MC KING's death... is due to lack of sleep...? Hmmm.. Frankly i wasn't much surprised to hear tis reason as a death cause.. Heard of cases like dat previously..
Since i'd jus eaten and couldn't get to sleep yet, out of curiosity, i web-searched under 'death due to lack of sleep'... and a list of results was presented, linkin' to quite a handful of articles that explain WHY SLEEP IS IMPORTANT TO US...
Gosh..!
After some browsin thru... i reli tink i shd do something to change my sleepin habits or else, i'll be endangering myself!!! *faintz*
Death from Lack of Sleep - Forum Discussion
eg. Death of net game addicts alert others
and...
Anyone knws it'll lead to OBESITY??!
Lack of Sleep May Lead to Excess Weight
Specifically, the study found that subjects between the ages of 32 and 59 who slept four hours or less per night were 73 percent more likely to be obese than those who slept between seven and nine hours each night. People who got only five hours of sleep had a 50 percent higher risk than those who were getting a full night's rest. Those who got six hours of sleep were just 23 percent more likely to be substantially overweight.
"The results are somewhat counterintuitive, since people who sleep less are naturally burning more calories," said lead researcher James Gangwisch, a post-doctoral fellow in psychiatric epidemiology at Columbia University. "But we think it has more to do with what happens to your body when you deprive it of sleep as opposed to the amount of physical activity that you get. Other studies have shown that leptin levels decrease and grehlin levels increase in people who are sleep-deprived, leading to increased appetite and consumption."
Why would that happen? According to Gangwisch, one possible answer can be found in looking back at our early forebears. "The metabolic regulatory system may have evolved to motivate humans to store fat during summer months when the nights are shorter and food is plentiful, which was a survival mechanism for the body to prepare for the dark winter months when food would not be as plentiful," said Gangwisch. "As a result, sleeping less could serve as a trigger to the body to increase food intake and store fat."
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(September 25, 2007 - Insidermedicine) From Cambridge - Burning the midnight oil may be hazardous to your health. A 17-year study on over 10,000 government workers has shown that those who cut their sleep from 7 hours to 5 hours per day had a 70% increase in death from all causes and a two-fold increase in death due to cardiovascular disease.
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