Sleep Loss Takes Toll on Health

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801405.html

Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body

With a good night's rest increasingly losing out to the Internet, e-mail, late-night cable and other distractions of modern life, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that too little or erratic sleep may be taking an unappreciated toll on Americans' health.

Beyond leaving people bleary-eyed, clutching a Starbucks cup and dozing off at afternoon meetings, failing to get enough sleep or sleeping at odd hours heightens the risk for a variety of major illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, recent studies indicate. ...

[halobeam]

1. recent studies indicate.....

it makes you too tired to click on the link to find out what recent studies indicate.

I can only guess that it makes you too tired to give a shit.

:evilgrin:

[redwitch]

2. good night DU

redwitch needs her beauty sleep.

[lectrobyte]

3. To quote the late great Warren Zevon, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

[redwitch]

4. LOL

You must be a young'un! At my age, when I don't get enough sleep I LOOK like I am dead!

[leeroysphitz]

5. Is that on the front page of "The Journal Duh! "? nt