Sleep study
Too much sleep is not a healthy solution even in gray autumn weather! A US study has found that overdose of sleep can cause the same health risks as lack of sleep.
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Sleep is healthy, but only in moderation! After all, if you allow yourself too much sleep over a longer period of time, you have the same risk of heart disease, strokes, diabetes or obesity as people who regularly give themselves too little sleep. This was the finding of a study by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, published in the October 2013 issue of the journal Sleep.
As part of the investigation, the research team took Safwan Badr reviewed the data of 54, 000 Americans aged 45 and up. Almost a third of the subjects were classified as "short sleepers", which means that they averaged a maximum of six hours sleep. At night, more than 64 percent came for "optimal" sleep between seven and nine hours, and four percent made it into the "late risers" category for more than ten hours a night.
Good sleep is important
The result: In short sleepers, the scientists found more frequently in addition to obesity and mental problems also coronary heart disease, strokes and diabetes. This applied equally to the late sleepers. In the sleep-hungry subjects, the associations of diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke were even more pronounced.
To sleep too long is therefore not good. Especially since the sleep duration does not necessarily say something about the quality of sleep, explains Badr. "A healthy, balanced lifestyle is not limited to diet and physical fitness - when and how you sleep is just as important as what you eat or exercise, " says the sleep expert.
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