A Good Night's Sleep

The amount of rest you get could determine not just how well you live but also how long

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Too much slumber can be as bad as too little.

Who doesn't welcome the sweet oblivion of a good night's sleep? The sad reality, however, is that a decent slumber is increasingly hard to come by. The average adult sleeps an hour and a half less now compared with more than a century ago, thanks to the Internet, e-mail, cell phones and 24-hour entertainment that all take bites out of the sleep cycle. If you need incentive to put some of those hours back into it, consider this: the amount of sleep you get may endanger your life. That's the conclusion reached by a new study conducted in Britain at University...

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