Too much or too little sleep, doubles risk of death.

fox news online ^ | 09/25/07 | no byline

[biscuit jane]

It's long been reported that a lack of sleep can be hazardous to one's health, but so can too much sleep, UK researchers report.

Researchers from the University of Warwick and University College London found that both a lack of sleep and too much sleep can more than double the risk of death in individuals, according to a study of more than 10,308 people.

Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School, speaking Monday to the British Sleep Society, said researchers studied data on the mortality rates and sleep patterns on the same group of civil servants at two points in their life (1985-1988 and those still alive in 1992-1993)...

[biscuit jane]

Amusing headline !

[rottndog]

If you sleep, you’re going to die.

If you don’t sleep, you’re going to die.

[Graybeard58]

During my workin life I never got enough sleep. I’ve been retired for 8 years and am not caught up yet.

[Dumpster Baby]

That’s so depressing I’m just gonna go to bed.

[philled]

Great. Now my risk of dying is now 200%. I’m doomed.

[Red Badger]

Oh great! Now I’m gonna lie awake at night worrying about it!...............

[Drew68]

But they also found that those individuals who showed an increase in sleep duration to eight hours or more a night were more than twice as likely to die as those who had not changed their habit

LOL!!! It is no allowed to post articles from The Onion on Free Republic.

Oh wait, Fox News?

[Red Badger]

Don’t worry about it. You’ll be “asleep” a lot longer than you were ever “awake”...............

[GulfBreeze]

And we are supposed to be afraid of global warming because “the scientists” say so. HOOEY.

What a load of cr@p.

[biscuit jane]

“LOL!!! It is no allowed to post articles from The Onion on Free Republic.

Oh wait, Fox News? “
==

LOL — ya Foxn-ion News !!

[HardStarboard]

Way too much sleep or way too little sleep quadruples the risk of death.

Way way too much sleep or way way to little sleep ups the risk of death eight times.

It you get the perfect amount of sleep, the risk of death is only 100%.

[Don Corleone]

a lack of sleep and too much sleep can more than double the risk of death in individuals

The risk of death in individuals is at 100 percent unless Hillary Kare can somehow lower it. /snic

[biscuit jane]

“And we are supposed to be afraid of global warming because “the scientists” say so. HOOEY.

What a load of cr@p.”

YEp. Global warming; just poke it with a pin.
Science knowledge is ever-changing. What we knew
as truth yesterday is totally de-bunked today, so indeed, how does anyone rush to judgement about crucial matters such as (man-made) global warming...?

was a time when it was accepted that:
cigarettes were healthy
cocaine was a cure
lead paint was no risk
lots of sunshine was good for ya ...

[Bigg Red]

Some reasons cited for too much sleep included depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue.

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Good grief! How moronic is this? Correlation does not equal causation.

[Old Professer]

I can only quickly think of one way that headline might be so; when one is sleeping on the rairoad track.

[ravinson]

That’s not news. People have been dying in their sleep for years. If they’d only stayed awake...

[Old Professer]

The study supposedly shows that seven hours is the sweet point - less is bad, more is worse.

As one wag said on an earlier thread, “Does that make it 200%?”

[bilhosty]

I don't believe sleep changes your risk of death one bit. I say the risk of death is 100% no matter how much sleep you do or do not get. And there is not one thing you can do to change that, not even 1%.

[dragonblustar]