Where is the best place to sleep (other than a bed)? If I fancy a change, I quite like to sleep on the stairs or just on the floor. I have often thought that I would like to sleep on the street for a few nights to get a taste of what it’s like to be homeless, but I have not done it yet. One thing that I do not like about sleeping is that I always fall asleep in the bath, it is quite worrying.
Also what is the best thing to wear sleeping? Personally I prefer sleeping naked, but I switch between boxers and nothing. If I am not sleeping at my own house I will normally just sleep in what I was wearing that day then changing in the morning.
Many different ways to sleep then, but I do not think that I would like to sleep naked on the stairs, or at someone else’s house.
Findings on a new sleep survey are mixed as a sleep analysis of 10,308 government workers over seventeen years has just been made public. The participants were aged 35-55. Researchers looked at the peoples sleeping habits between the years of 1995 to 1998, and 1992 to 1993, and mortality rates until 2004. It also compared the social lives of the participants to sleeping habits.
The study shows that, if a person cuts their sleep from seven hours to five hours they ultimately risk an increase of death and death from cardiovascular problems. But sleeping more than eight hours doubles the risk of death, and death would be triggered from non-cardiovascular diseases. Sleeping less than five hours per night increases a risk of weight gain, Type 2 diabetes, and other diseases, which could end up in leading to death.
“A third of the population of the UK and over 40 percent in the U.S. regularly sleep less than five hours a night, so it is not a trivial problem,” said Francesco Cappuccio, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Warwick. “In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that consistently sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal for health,” Cappuccio added.
The new findings have been published on medical journal SLEEP’s website. It will officially be published in the magazines next issue.
