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I turned lab rat to look at the importance of sleep and that is how I learnt to pay attention to a previously ignored aspect of my health.
Lack of sleep is behind problems like depression, hypertension, heart issues, loss of appetite, weight gain, ageing, loss of memory, skin problems - to name only a few.
Anybody over the age of 18 needs an average 8 hours of sleep every night, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Dr MS Kanwar, a sleep specialist, affirms that Indians are not sleeping well, owing mostly to the demands of an urban lifestyle.
According to a survey by FitBit in 2017, we clock 6 hours 55 minutes every night on average, making us some of the poorest sleepers in the world.
I tracked my sleep for eight nights and seven days. During this period, I tracked not just my sleep, but my entire lifestyle. What was my diet like? How much junk food was I eating? Was I working late? How late and how often?
Here are five takeaways:
With work, social media and the usual things in the life of a millennial, getting the recommended eight hours of sleep every night is still a struggle. Being aware of the importance of sleep is at least a start, don’t you think? And perhaps, that is how I learnt to choose my bed over going out.
Editor: Kunal Mehra
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Published: 05 Mar 2018,02:33 PM IST