Snooze-it or Loose-it

Sleep deprivation has long been associated with negative health impacts such as workplace accidents and automobile accidents, obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, depression, heart attacks and strokes according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

USA Today has reported that CDC data show 28% of US adults sleep six hours or less per night, leading the organisation to describe insufficient sleep “a public health epidemic.” Sleep is now considered to be “one of the components of a three-legged stool of wellness: nutrition, exercise and sleep,” says Safwan Badr, a past president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and a sleep expert with Detroit Medical Center and Wayne State University. “The three are synergistic,” he says, with mutually enhancing effect.

Source: pharmacydaily.com.au, Thursday 3 July 2014