A new survey out has said sleeping for 8 hours a more can course a whole range of health problems, such as memory, or even a stroke. The survey says that you are likely to live longer if you sleep between 6 - 7 hours per night.
Can you give the reference, please?
Did it actually say,
The survey says that you are likely to live longer if you sleep between 6 - 7 hours per night.
? Or did it simply show a correlation between the two?
It showed a correlation from what I heard of the story. That would make more sense to me than a direct causal relationship.....
Can you give the reference, please?
Did it actually say,
? Or did it simply show a correlation between the two?
Hi I found the article in the Daily Mail. I can give you the link>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-100510/Too-sleep-kill-claims-study.html
Thanks, Sally.
Things I've read suggest that regular over-sleeping could indicate a health problem - in which case any causality would be running the other way.
Thank you for the link, Michael.
Unfortunately, the Daily Mail doesn't clear up our conundrum. Nor, from the sound of it, do the Californian researchers. All they seem to have shown is a correlation, which shows nothing.
(There's a famous correlation - illustrating how these may not mean a thing - between US spending on science, space and technology and suicides by strangulation, suffocation and hanging!)
A correlation is very open ended, so be careful with research that suggests one thing based on the results of opposing statistics. Also, the Daily Fail frequently runs stories on medical statistics, usually claiming things that are often circumstantial or disclaimed.
In my opinion, too little sleep is probably worse than too much. That's how I justified it to myself as a young lad anyway 🙂
Too little is probably worse than too much, but too much is worse than the right amount 🙂
Lol, I don't sleep that much time every night 🙂 I usually go to bed at 1 AM and wake up to go to work at 7h30 am 🙂
When i sleep too much, i walk around feeling like a zombie the whole day. That can't be good.
Sir Benjamin Franklin have said that "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise".