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Article: You Will Start to Feel Very Sleepy...(regular and ample sleep important as food and exercise)(Excerpt)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- January 26, 2004
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Adapted from "Improving Sleep," published by Harvard Medical School. For information on sleep, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.
We don't need a scientist or a study to tell us that there's a price to be paid for losing sleep. You sag after lunch, or just plain feel crummy. Remember when your parents shooed you to bed with "Because you need your sleep, that's why!"? They were right--more than they knew.
Research now suggests that regular, ample sleep is one of those indispensables, ranking right up there with eating right and exercising. Recent experiments show that when you shortchange sleep, the human immune system produces fewer infection-fighting ...