囧研究:睡足8小时扯淡!
If you only got six hours' shut eye last night, there is no need to lose sleep over it.
Scientists say that despite the widely held belief that we need eight hours of sleep a night, six to seven hours is the natural amount.
Advising short-sleepers to rest easy, the US researchers said: 'This has important implications for the idea that we need to take sleeping pills because sleep has been reduced from its natural level by the widespread use of electricity, TV, the internet and so on.'
The lead author of a study Ghandi said: 'There's this expectation that we should all be sleeping for eight or nine hours a night, and if you took away modern technology, people would be sleeping more.
‘But now, for the first time, we are showing that’s not true.’
Most of those studied slept for less than seven hours a night, with the average amount just six hours and 25 minutes. This is much less than the eight hours often recommended in western societies.
Despite this, the peoples studied were in good health, with lower rates of obesity, better blood pressure and healthier hearts than people in industrialised societies. They were also fitter.