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SLEEP DEPRIVATION

James Joyner
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United Press International has just discovered that the modern lifestyle has most of us sleep-deprived. I’m shocked.

The piece claims that, before the invention of electric lights, people averaged ten hours of sleep a day. The average is now less than seven hours, with over a third getting six or less. Apparently, the problem is that we’re all fat, sedentary, consume too much caffeine and alcohol, and watch too much television. Well, yeah.

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4 responses to “SLEEP DEPRIVATION”

  1. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    Yet, we live longer and better.

    What’s a pessimist and critic to do?

  2. John Lemon Avatar
    John Lemon

    No mention about the effects of blogging.

  3. bryan Avatar
    bryan

    Yes, and before the invention of electric light, people had to work like the dickens to make a living wage, died earlier from whatever disease-of-the-month was ravaging the countryside, and listened to 7-hour lincoln-douglas debates for giggles. No thanks, I’ll take the blog and the playstation.

  4. Meezer Avatar
    Meezer

    UPI must be a bunch of “slickers” (as in city). They probably don’t spend more than 10 minutes per day “outside”. Otherwise they would know that 6 months a year get 12+ hours of light per day. The longest day in my neck of the woods is June 21st with 7.5 hours of darkness. Before electricity you worked (and farmers and other outdoor types still do) as long as it was light. So from March through September you weren’t getting 10 hours of sleep or even close to it.

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