"LIVE 12% LONGER
How: Get less sleep
Why: A joint study from the University of California's School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society found that compared to people getting seven hours a night, people who slept for recommended eight hours a night were 12% more likely to die prematurely. However, one study also found that getting less than four hours sleep a night significantly increased the death rate."
The newspaper should reference the link, ma fan have to Google the article. Anyways the full article can be found here.
Ok so this means that a person should sleep for min 5 and max 7 hours only la is it? Well technically this is kinda good news for me and a couple of other late-niters (all students of course, maybe you're one of them) since our generation somehow managed to reduce the need for sleep and still able to live optimally. And who knows in the near future we don't need to sleep at all because of our biological clock 'evolution', and after that we also might not need to eat, drink, walk, breed (well that sucks) etc to achieve perfect evolution...
But logically I think the sleep less live longer only applies to teens and adults because little kids still need their 10 hours rest due to their hyper metabolism and I've seen them mutate into cranky monstrosities if they try to stay up. Speaking of which, from my point of view this is an evolving lifestyle. Back when I was 6-10 years old I slept at 8pm (wtf right?) then 11-15 years old it's 10-11pm, then at age 15-17 it's 12-2am and finally at 18-20 I hit the hay at 4am++ before waking up at 11am on no-class day and 7am on have-class day. And there's no addition from naps, I don't take afternoon naps because I'll always wake up disoriented for a minute. So that's 3-7 hours sleep for me and leaves me on the border of living longer-living shorter, which means I'll live life at 100% and not 112% or 88%. I think I should be happy with that percentage :)
How: Get less sleep
Why: A joint study from the University of California's School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society found that compared to people getting seven hours a night, people who slept for recommended eight hours a night were 12% more likely to die prematurely. However, one study also found that getting less than four hours sleep a night significantly increased the death rate."
The newspaper should reference the link, ma fan have to Google the article. Anyways the full article can be found here.
Ok so this means that a person should sleep for min 5 and max 7 hours only la is it? Well technically this is kinda good news for me and a couple of other late-niters (all students of course, maybe you're one of them) since our generation somehow managed to reduce the need for sleep and still able to live optimally. And who knows in the near future we don't need to sleep at all because of our biological clock 'evolution', and after that we also might not need to eat, drink, walk, breed (well that sucks) etc to achieve perfect evolution...
But logically I think the sleep less live longer only applies to teens and adults because little kids still need their 10 hours rest due to their hyper metabolism and I've seen them mutate into cranky monstrosities if they try to stay up. Speaking of which, from my point of view this is an evolving lifestyle. Back when I was 6-10 years old I slept at 8pm (wtf right?) then 11-15 years old it's 10-11pm, then at age 15-17 it's 12-2am and finally at 18-20 I hit the hay at 4am++ before waking up at 11am on no-class day and 7am on have-class day. And there's no addition from naps, I don't take afternoon naps because I'll always wake up disoriented for a minute. So that's 3-7 hours sleep for me and leaves me on the border of living longer-living shorter, which means I'll live life at 100% and not 112% or 88%. I think I should be happy with that percentage :)
9 comments:
Interesting post!! I think most of the teenagers these days 'burn the midnight oil' for some reasons not including studying, of cuz...lol...
I'm happy to live my life at 100%..no more or no less. For me,
112%= longer suffering
88%= lack of enjoyment and fun
Sleep less naturally and have more energy all day!
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Hmmm, my sleep time change from time to time boh, my sleeping range from 4 to 8hrs( usually),lately i have had 6hrs sleep in weekdays, then 10 hrs in weekend (hohoho...) and still feel like going to bed all the time (which i refuse to since moi is still have holiday, sleep away my holiday is a nono! if it's school day i will go sleep whenever i want huhuhu...)holiday is short why sleep it away!
Anyway totally agree with michellepsh's opinion on 112% too long and 88% not enuf
haha thnx for the promotion jeff, but i doubt they sell dat product here.
Good to hear moi get 6 hrs slp on weekdays unlike Ham here huhuhu. And be careful moi dont sleep whenever u want all the time when u get back to Oz oh later susah owh haha jk
But yeah i understand cannot waste hols by sleeping it away. And upcoming CNY hols confirm sleep 5 hours only as 'advised' by the new findings, gonna joli-joli like no 2molo mwuahaha. And yesh i oso agree wif michellepsh, I rather live at 100% than live forever or die young n done ntg to enjoy it.
Anyways here are the rest of the tips on living healthier as quoted from the same page mentioned in the post:
CUT YOUR CHOLESTEROL BY 10%
How: Replace butter or margarine with plant-sterol enriched spread
Ham: Plant-sterol, wow thats new. Next maybe we hef plantrol for car fuel.
RETAIN UP TO 10% MORE BRAIN POWER
How: Eat fish once a week
Ham: They didn't mention whether to take fresh unprocessed fish or the Ayam Brand's canned tuna.
LOWER YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE BY 4%
How: Take a vitamin C supplement
Ham: CNY coming soon, gonna get a lot of vitamin C from those lokam.
CUT YOUR HEART DISEASE BY 14%
How: Eat fibre
Ham: Hence explains why hamsters gnaw and even eat wood chips. And why Ham loves toothpick.
REDUCE YOUR RISK OF COLON CANCER BY 15%
How: Have a daily glass of low-fat milk
Ham: Got milk? Lol no worries, Ham gets steady milk intake every breakfast
LOWER YOUR RISK OF HIP FRACTURES BY 12%
How: Take a calcium and vitamin D supplement
Ham: Vitamin D, isn't that the one from the sun? Meaning people should stand in the sun more often and save $$$ buying supplements, sun rays are free depending on weather.
BURN 12% MORE BODY FAT EVERY DAY
How: Drink tea
Ham: Yum cha!
SLASH YOUR BREAST CANCER RISK BY 7%
How: Drink one less alcoholic drink a day
Ham: Uh... Ham has no breasts. Less alcoholic? Shandy lo only 1% which is also abundant on CNY
nah, time doesn't really concern me, u should edi know me to have no sense of time, last time in aus i sambil chat with u sambil read comic/novel till 6am leh on the weekend, the weekday still go by like normal. My biological clock edi ruin edi, just sometime the urge of waking up will function.
what i mean by the urge of waking up is neh have u ever after the alarm ring u shut it off and went back to bed, then really fall asleep for 10 or 15 minutes then suddenly ur mind said why r u still sleeping! then u wake up and jump of the bed and grab ur alarm clock, stare at it then scream alamak! that kind of feeling lol, sometime my mind dunno why, even though that day no need to wake up, that feeling can suddenly come and give me a heart attack, and usually my sensible side will scold, alamak what today Saturday! no school! I just did that last last sat, jump of bed at 7.30am thinking i have ac class that day as well, crazy! 5 minutes later i'm back in bed again.
Anyway back to the topic, 3 hrs not too bad lah, i hav gone though hell when went to Auckland, 5 hours! am suppose having dinner according to m'sia time but time at that country said i suppose to go to bed edi.
For people like us, turning time backward is always easier, it's just make our life seems more healthy, sleep and wake up on the right time, turning forward is nightmare! not only suffer from the impact of rugi some time, even turn days into nights
then i realized...
the reason why we claim sleep is so good...
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