Why not enough sleep will make your life a nightmare

A lack of sleep can have far-reaching health implications

Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He explains: "We squeeze more and more into the day and with the demands of e-mail and work, sleep is always the first victim."

"Because we don't really understand the importance of sleep it is so easy not to sleep."

"It is all part of the way we essentially marginalise the importance of sleep. Thirty six per cent of our lives will be spent asleep. If you lived to 90 that is 32 years. It is telling us that sleep, at some level, is important, yet we don't give it a second thought. It is remarkable .... http://www.sott.net