From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-344594-354662
ATLANTA (UPI) -- People who got less than six hours of sleep are more
likely to be obese, physically inactive, smokers and alcohol users, a
U.S. government report said.
Charlotte Schoenborn -- a health statistician with the National Health
Interview Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention --
completed a study on sleep duration and its correlation to a variety
of adverse health behaviors.
"Among adults 18 and older who sleep between seven to eight hours a
night, only 18 percent were current cigarette smokers compared to over
30 percent of adults who slept less than six hours a night and that is
a very large difference," Schoenborn said in a statement.
"One of the other very large differences was in obesity and there's a
lot of interest now in the association between obesity and in that
case -- 22 percent of U.S. adults who slept seven to eight hours were
obese compared with a third of those who slept less than six hours.
"The whole health promotion climate now tells us that we know what we
need to be doing -- we need to be not smoking, we need to be
exercising, we need to be controlling our weight and limiting our
alcohol use and all of these things contribute to a healthy lifestyle
-- and all are linked to a less sleep," Schoenborn said.