Sleep is very important. Did you know twat sieep is moreimportant than food? A person who does not sleep dies fastet a person who does not eat
Let 's say you go to sleep 12 hours late. It will take your bod about three weeks to teturn to notmal. We spend about athird (1/3) fo our fives in sleep. That s about 121 days a yearl
How much sieep do we nees do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every doy. Children 6 to 12 years old need an avertaae of 10 to12 hours of sleep. Teenaars need 9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a nlght. There ara some people who need only 3 hours of sleep. Others neeb 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50 the average sleep tine goes down to 6.5 hours a night. Weneedless slee sleep as we get older
Most people have some nlghts when they cannot sleep. Aboutone in three. Americans sleep time goes dowe to 6.5 hours a night. We need less sleep as we getolder
Most people have some nlgnts when they cannot sleep. About one in three. Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot full asleep. The name of this problem is insomnia. The word cannot fall adleep. The name of this problem is insomnia.
The word insomnia means no sleep . Some people say. I didn t sleep all night insomnla means no sleep. Some people say. I didn t sleep all night . But that s not really true . They may sleep lightly and wake up several times ln the morning they only remember the timts they were awake so they thlnk they were awake all night.
This is not a new problem . Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these peop had special ideas to make them sleep. Beniamin Franklin. the famous stesman and invetor had four beds . He moved frorm one to the other to fall asleep
Klng Louis XiV of France hod 413beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain the famous American wtiter had a different way . He lay on his sibe across ths end of the bedl