Thursday, September 18, 2008

Get More Out of Your Sleep


They say that sleep is essential for one's growth and health but though this fact was never been firmly establish. Sleep varies with the need of a person that's why children needs more sleep for their growth than those who are older. People that are deprived of sleep experience weakness and that they loss their concentration on what they do, they also experience loss of appetite and that they are easily get anger. This is because sleep affects our daily functioning our physical and mental health in many ways.

How much sleep do we need?

Need for sleep by an individual may vary on different factors including age as I say those children especially infants require about 16 hours a day, while teenagers need about 19 hours on average. For the adults they need 7 to 8 hours a night which appears to be the best amount of sleep. People may need as few 5 hours or as 10 hours of sleep each day. Those pregnant women during their 3 months may need several more hours of sleep than usual. This amount of sleep by an individual may also vary if he has been deprived of sleep in precious the days.

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