The Importance of Sleep

So here is another sport where my health background creeps into the Green Pages. But I am a huge advocated of SLEEP. Perhaps because I have spent more than my fair share of nights without it. But pay attention as flu season approaches:

In a recent study for The Archives of Internal Medicine, scientists followed 153 men and women for two weeks, keeping track of their quality and duration of sleep. Then, during a five-day period, they quarantined the subjects and exposed them to cold viruses. Those who slept an average of fewer than seven hours a night, it turned out, were three times as likely to get sick as those who averaged at least eight hours.

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