NEWS: 11 SURPRISING HEALTH BENEFITS OF SLEEP

Sleep makes you feel better. Adequate sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle, and can benefit your heart, weight, mind and more. These are the 11 benefits you get if you have a good slep.

• Improve memory: During sleep you can strenghten memories or "practice" skills learned while you were awake (it's a process called consolidation).
• Live longer?: Sleep too much or too little is associated with a shortes lifespan. Sleep also affects quality of live. If you sleep better, you can certainly live better. 
• Curb inflamation: People who sleep less than six or fewer hours a night have higher blood levels of inflammatory proteins than those who get more hours sleep. 
• Spur creativity: People seem to strenghten the emotional components of a memory during sleep, which may help spur the creative process. 
• Be a winner: Sleep is good to improve your performance.
• Improve your grades: Children between the ages of 10 and 16 who have sleep disordered are more likely to have problems with attention and learning, Also if you didn't get enough sleep had worse grades than those who did.
• Sharpen attention: Children between the ages of seven and eight who sleep less than eight hours a night were more likely to be hyperactive, inattentive and impulsive.
• Have a healthy weight: Dieters who sleep well loses more fat than those who don't sleep enough hours. Dieters also feel more hungry when they get less sleep.
• Lower stress: Sleep can reduce levels of stress and people can have better control of their blood presure. It's also believed that sleep effects cholesterol levels.
• Avoid accidents: Sleepiness affects reaction time and decision making. Insuficient sleep can be as detrimental to your driving ability as having an alcoholic drink. 
• Steer clear of depression: Good night's sleep can really help a moody person decrease their anxiety. You get more emotional stability with good sleep. 

My opinion:

I think that it was an interesting piece of news to read. I have learnt more about this topic and I also realised that we should give more importance the way we sleep. 

                                                                  

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