Are We Getting Enough Sleep?

Brian Yalung — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:26:30 +0000

Sleep is important and a necessity for us to go on living healthy lives. There is a trend that is quite funny. During our toddler years, we find ourselves sleeping most of the time. We see this when we have our own kids who are always around us. On the other hand, as we get older, tendency is we slowly decrease the number of hours of sleep due to a number of reasons such as:

Stress
Excessive Thinking
Time Management from Work or Studies
Social Life
Searching for the Right Comfort

If you will summarize it, it would seem that when we are in our prime years, we tend to overwork and want to take on the whole world as we see it. We are usually hyperactive that we forget the usual 6 to 8 hours of sleep. But when we near the retiring age, somewhere between 25 and above, we find ourselves going back to sleeping longer hours. This is because our bodies are slowly getting older and the organs we have are not as metabolized during our active years.

Here is a study you can read on: Study Shows U.S. Adults Not Getting Enough Sleep

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Are We Getting Enough Sleep?