Get More Sleep. Unless You Want to Die Soon.
Posted by Kristin Iversen on Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:22 PM
"Dramatic headline? Why, yes. Yes, it is. But it's also for your own good. CNN Health reports on a new study has just come out which proves—PROVES—that "over the long term, sleep deprivation also increases the risk of serious health problems including obesity and type II diabetes."
So, basically, your snooze button could be saving your life.
The study, which was published by the Annals of Internal Medicine, was conducted with a relatively small sample size (only seven people were involved) but the results got pretty specific on a cellular level. What the study determined was that "sleep deprivation, the study found, impairs the ability of fat cells to respond to insulin, a hormone that regulates metabolism and is involved in diabetes."
What's too little sleep, you ask? Apparently, sleeping four and a half hours is little enough sleep that your body starts to be negatively affected. To which I say, oh, fabulous. Four and a half hours is what I get on a good weekday night. I am clearly on a path of self-destruction. I mean, I already clearly was, but now it's been scientifically confirmed."
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