How Much Average Sleep Time We Need?
Sleep times is depend on the Age, Gender, and
Activity. Six to seven hours is an average sleep time for adults.
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Sleeping time – Greetings Readers of Propersleep ... Actually,
what is the ideal amount of sleep times for humans? and if the amount sleep
times is not met, whether it would bring negative impact to our health, this
question may have overshadowed our minds, and certainly we do not want our
less sleeping time will interfere our health.
Factor Determine Sleep Time
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Sleeping
time needed by each person is different from each others, it depends on the age,
gender and type of activity. Children need longer sleep times than
adults, because its important to support their physical and mental
development, and people with heavy physical activity will require more sleep
time than average people.
Optimal Sleep Time for Adults
Rumors that
we heard in the community say that the recommended sleep time is 8 hours a
day. However, recent studies reveal that apparently the optimal sleep time is
6 to 7 hours. The Studies also said that six to seven hours is an average
sleep time for adults that we need to get every day.
Modern Life and Decreased Sleeping Time
Having
enough sleep has important implications for our health, but in line to the
modern life development, the sleeping times began to decrease from its optimal
amount due to the widespread use of
electricity, gadget, TV, internet and so on.
Research on Traditional Tribe
Researchers
from the University of California, Los Angeles, studied the sleep time habits
of the three ethnic groups in Africa. These tribal groups have been living their
traditional lifestyle which does not involve modern life, so it is considered
similar to our ancestor’s traditional living.
They
living in very good health, with lower rates of obesity, better blood pressure,
healthy food and also fitter condition, Most of them get less than seven
hours of sleep each night, with an average of only 6 hours 25 minutes. This
is a time of less than 8 hours as is often recommended in western society in
general.
Optimal Sleeping Time
Having adequate sleeping times will
increase immunity will increase and health, both physically and mentally we will be
stronger if we get a good sleep and a good night rest.
There
is certain that we all have to sleep for eight or nine hours a night,
and our body has accustomed to it. Even tough traditional people only sleep for
6 hours a day and still healthy, modern people with modern technology
tend to need longer sleeping times.
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