Missed ZZZ’s, More Disease?
Skimping on sleep may be bad for your health
By Kristin Cobb
As bleary-eyed college students in exam week will attest, lack of sleep impairs mood, performance, and judgment. They might guess, however, that the fast food and candy gobbled down during an all-nighter are far worse for bodily health than are the lost hours of slumber. After all, scientists have long been preaching that too many
Big Macs and too few workouts are bad for you, but they have yet to demonstrate any definitive health costs of chronic sleep loss.