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Article: Tired, hungry and sad? Relax, you're hibernating.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2002
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Byline: CATHERINE ZANDONELLA
DOES dull weather wear you down?
Does every shop crammed with sales stock send your spirits plummeting? Is that health kick abandoned in favour of comfort food and a relationship with your duvet?
Don't worry - perhaps your body's trying to hibernate.
Some people get the winter blues on a monumental scale. Sufferers of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) would rather cosy up to a television set than another human being.
They shun sex in favour of pizza, snooze for maybe 16 hours a day and are often moody.
Small wonder that SAD sufferers compare their condition to hibernation. When ...