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Article: CONSUMING LIFESTYLE HAS AMERICANS UP TO THEIR BLEARY EYES IN SLEEP DEBT.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 6, 1998
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Last week was National Sleep Awareness Week, but you may have dozed through it.
Judging from a national survey, Americans remain woefully ignorant about sleep, its critical role in their lives and the hazards of not getting enough of it.
How serious is this ignorance? These facts are telling:
While the average adult needs eight to nine hours of sleep a night, most get only seven, and nearly one-third of the 1,027 adults surveyed in late 1997 and early 1998 got six hours or less during the work week.
Two-thirds of those surveyed reported having a sleep-related problem such as insomnia, snoring or ``restless-leg syndrome,'' which causes ...