Work, work and more work, that’s what people everywhere are focused on. Not once is a thought spared as to where all this work will take them. People are so busy trying to make both ends meet that they don’t get a single minute for themselves. What do they get in return - often hours of sleepless nights.
So the crux of the matter is, that our body needs atleast 6-7 hours of peaceful sleep every night, once in a while it is okay if this routine is skipped. More than 40% of the population in the US, sleep for less than 5 hours, which is not a trivial problem. The lesser we sleep the more prone are we to strokes and cardiovascular deaths. The correlation between such cardiovascular risks and less sleep is clear, but, curiously this risk is even higher if people sleep for more than 8-9 hours.
The pressure in the society, to cut down on sleep, so as to squeeze out as much as is possible in the given time may not be a good idea, especially if people are sleeping for less than 6 hours.
So please think twice before thinking “it's fine, I'll just finish this much work and then sleep, it hardly makes a difference. ”
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