Sleep quality
Continuing the theme How long should I sleep?
British doctors interviewed a thousand boys and girls aged 12 to 16 years. The results, to put it mildly, disappointing. Almost a quarter of respondents fall asleep with the TV, audio system, and so on. About 40% of them complain that they often feel lethargic throughout the day. This is not surprising, since they sleep, on average, from seven to four hours a day, while according to all medical standards at least eight are needed. Alas, adolescents themselves think little of this: only a quarter of them understand the importance of a good and healthy sleep for health.
The doctors introduced the special term “junk sleep”, which can be translated into Russian as “junk sleep”. This phrase well illustrates the fact that modern teenagers carelessly relate to sleep, considering it an annoying waste of time that should be avoided if possible.
However, only a small number of adults need a 10-hour sleep or feel great, spending 4-5 hours a day to sleep. Most need 6-8 hours. Doctors are inclined to believe that the duration of sleep that a person needs is individual and hereditarily programmed - just like, for example, eye color or height.
With age, as we grow older and older, the need for sleep decreases. If a newborn should normally sleep for 20 hours a day or more, an 18–20-year-old person is 10 hours, then for a 30–40-year-old, normal sleep lasts 7–8 hours, and for a 60–70-year-old person there is 6 hours sleep is also absolutely normal.
Still, in terms of sleep, quantity is far less important than quality. The indicator of good sleep is how a person feels mentally and physically after him. Doctors urge to respect the quality of sleep - to sleep in silence, in a ventilated room and yet enough for you personally the number of hours.
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For children who, firstly, grow up, and secondly, spend more energy during the day than adults, this is of fundamental importance.
Professor Jim Horn of the Loughborough Sleep Research Center, in turn, emphasizes: “Young people need to be taught a good lifestyle, including healthy sleep, as well as healthy eating.
Otherwise, if everything goes the way it is now, mankind will face a real epidemic of insomnia, experts say.
British doctors interviewed a thousand boys and girls aged 12 to 16 years. The results, to put it mildly, disappointing. Almost a quarter of respondents fall asleep with the TV, audio system, and so on. About 40% of them complain that they often feel lethargic throughout the day. This is not surprising, since they sleep, on average, from seven to four hours a day, while according to all medical standards at least eight are needed. Alas, adolescents themselves think little of this: only a quarter of them understand the importance of a good and healthy sleep for health.
The doctors introduced the special term “junk sleep”, which can be translated into Russian as “junk sleep”. This phrase well illustrates the fact that modern teenagers carelessly relate to sleep, considering it an annoying waste of time that should be avoided if possible.
However, only a small number of adults need a 10-hour sleep or feel great, spending 4-5 hours a day to sleep. Most need 6-8 hours. Doctors are inclined to believe that the duration of sleep that a person needs is individual and hereditarily programmed - just like, for example, eye color or height.
With age, as we grow older and older, the need for sleep decreases. If a newborn should normally sleep for 20 hours a day or more, an 18–20-year-old person is 10 hours, then for a 30–40-year-old, normal sleep lasts 7–8 hours, and for a 60–70-year-old person there is 6 hours sleep is also absolutely normal.
Still, in terms of sleep, quantity is far less important than quality. The indicator of good sleep is how a person feels mentally and physically after him. Doctors urge to respect the quality of sleep - to sleep in silence, in a ventilated room and yet enough for you personally the number of hours.
')
For children who, firstly, grow up, and secondly, spend more energy during the day than adults, this is of fundamental importance.
Professor Jim Horn of the Loughborough Sleep Research Center, in turn, emphasizes: “Young people need to be taught a good lifestyle, including healthy sleep, as well as healthy eating.
Otherwise, if everything goes the way it is now, mankind will face a real epidemic of insomnia, experts say.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13698/
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