Sleep - Too Little Or Too Much Is Bad For Health

So how much sleep is enough?

It is a subject to a heated debate among the experts to sleep, let alone a group of people who are bound to a) someone who swears that they are simply good with four hours per night, and b) The Rip Van Winkles can not function on less than 10 hours after the closure eye.

The latest research results suggest BOTH these two extremes could have a problem - too little or too much sleep could be bad for your health and your chances of a long live life, .

So who are the light sleepers? Now, in our own time Madonna, Jay Leno and Donald Trump reportedly do very well with four hours per night, continuing a long tradition, by the likes of inventor Thomas Edison and the legendary British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

However - and it is But a major - Edison and Churchill for admission require a longer nap during the day. Who knows, maybe Madonna nap in the recording studio between takes!

At the other extreme, renowned scientist Albert Einstein, who claimed that need AT LEAST 10 hours sleep a night!

While "eight hours in the night" has long been known as the ideal sleep, the medical research suggests seven hours, the new standards. Studies in various countries find that people who sleep too little (less than six hours per day) or too much (more than eight hours) to live shorter lives than those in between.

Now, the idea of only four or five hours A night decent rest is simply a dream for many people suffering, the misery of insomnia, let alone eight hours. And millions seem to work well with five or six hours. Indeed, it is important not to get hung up on the quantity of sleep, but the all-important quality of sleep experienced.

That said, a fascinating six-year study of obesity researchers at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada found, that people who sleep five until six hours sleep a night, and those who for nine or 10 hours more weight than those sleeping for seven to eight hours. The researchers monitored 276 adults aged 21 to 64.

Interesting huh?

"Everything we have seen in recent years on this subject says yes, if you seven to eight hours of sleep at night, you have the best chance is not the weight gain and maintaining your own weight," said Donna Arand, an experimental psychologist with the Sleep Disorders Center in Kettering Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.

"And if you get much less than that or much more than you are even injured, and it is an uphill struggle."

Exactly why short and long sleepers gained weight is not known, but the researchers believe that sleep deprivation disrupts the production of hormones that regulate appetite. Too little sleep and the body produces more of the "hunger hormone," makes you want to eat .. Sleep too much? The scientists believe that we are not getting quality sleep - that is the reason why you remain in bed. The effect is the same - your body produces too much hunger hormone.

Forgive the word game, but the study adds weight to the importance of overcoming the problems sleeping, so you always correct balance every night. And, as I point out in my self-help guide Banish Insomnia, requires a complete change in lifestyle.

Reduce your stress, exercise and a balanced diet, and you have begun the journey to sleep every night.

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