Think you're cool for staying up late and getting no sleep? Think again! It turns out getting less than six hours sleep a night raises your chance of an early death by 12 per cent.
Yes, trying to impress your mates with all-nighters could allegedly lead to diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
'Lack of sleep is a growing problem," Lisa Artis of the British Sleep Council (an actual thing) said. 'Firstly people don't place enough importance on sleep and the health benefits being well-rested can have.
'Secondly, unlike a lot of well understood life changes such as eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, sleep isn't really on the agenda.
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'Unlike diet sleep is a hard thing to regiment and a whole number of factors such as having small children, having other health issues and environmental factors can all disturb sleep patterns.
Having the odd rough-night is no harm, but research claims that continuous wink-less naps increase stress levels, which nobody wants. They can also intensify your heart rate and raise blood pressure.
Public Health England is now encouraging nocturnal seshheads to sleep more, to stop people from going into cardiac arrest before they get white hair.
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In a document released last month, PHE said: 'Only around 20-30 per cent of what we think of as "ageing" is biological; the rest is "decay" or "deterioration", which can be actively managed or prevented.
'The years between ages 40 and 60 are thus a unique but neglected opportunity for intervention.'
Words by Josh Teal
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