Do you have enough sleep? Is your night time sleep less than six hours every day? If so, you must be careful because the night sleeping less than six hours per day can lead to premature death.
English and Italian research team reminded people who sleep less than six hours a higher risk than those who sleep 6-8 hours per day. The research team investigated the relationship between sleep and mortality rates in the United Kingdom, United States, Europe and East Asia.
According to them, the various causes of early death was based on lack of sleep or too much sleep. Ideally, each sleeping 6-8 hours a night person. “Modern society increasingly less time sleeping. This occurs more frequently in full-time employees because there is pressure and the need to work longer,” says Francesco Cappuccio, Program Director of Sleep, Health, and Society at the University of Warwick, England.
How much sleep do you need? It really depends on your individual physical needs. No magic number can apply to everyone. Normally, most adults need 6-8 hours of sleep each night, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Children need more sleep than adults. For example, little babies need 16 to 18 hours very day for sleep and preschool children need 10 to 12 hours a day for sleep. School-aged children and teenagers need at least 9 hours of sleep a night.
The elderly need about the same amount of sleep as younger adults; that is between 6 and 8 hours every night. As people are getting older to senior ages, they tend to go to sleep earlier and get up earlier than in previous decades, and they may need more naps during the day.
If you feel drowsy at the daytime, that is a sign that you might not have enough sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation. In addition, if you usually fall asleep within 5 minutes when you are lying down, you are probably having too little sleep.
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