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BS. Sleeping 8 hours a night doesn't make you live longer. Sleeping less than 2 hours a night for a long period of time may make you live less. Same with diet
by axod 17y ago
BS. Sleeping 8 hours a night doesn't make you live longer.
Sleeping less than 2 hours a night for a long period of time may make you live less.
Same with diet. Eat a normal average diet, and you're set. Eat MacDonalds every day for breakfast, and maybe you'll die a bit earlier.
Don't forget also:
total happiness = time spent doing something * happiness level
eg, I would hate to maximize for 'time' at the expense of average happiness level.
The chances are we'll mostly die from accidents, cancer, etc anyway.
- snitko 17y agoWhat you're saying is a simplification. Not eating from McDonalds is not enough. Cancer was linked to specific diets, so don't think you're safe just because you're no a fastfood fan. Also significant number of accidents on the roads happen because people are drowsy - a result of a huge sleep debt, which might not be as obvious (you may sleep 8 hours the night before and steel be drowsy at the wheel).
- axod 17y ago>> "Also significant number of accidents on the roads happen because people are drowsy" Show some evidence. I don't buy it.
- snitko 17y agoCheck out this for example: http://www.tfhrc.gov/humanfac/sleep/sleepweb.htm http://www.tfhrc.gov/humanfac/sleep/sleepweb.htm People were sleep deprived, then tested on a road simulator. Also, if you're looking for some data, the problem is that many fatal accidents' causes are reported as unknown. Given the results of the simulation, a majority of those accidents may be related to sleep deprivation.
- axod 17y agoSLEEP DEPRIVED != not sleeping 8 hours a night. Sleep deprivation is dangerous. But it's also obvious. You don't need to read a book to know that.
- snitko 17y agoWell , listen, you're wrong - that's why you should read the book. Say you sleep 7 hours a night instead of 8. Brain keeps track of the sleep you take. If you miss some, it adds it to your sleep debt. Then after a week you got full 8 hours extra sleep debt and even if you sleep 8 hours the night before you drive, you'll feel drowsy very soon after you wake up. Researches have been conducted which proved that the condition after a lack of sleep 1 hour each night during a week would be equal to the condition when you haven't slept through the night.
- snitko 17y agoAlso see this document: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/PEOPLE/INJURY/drowsy_driving1/drowsy.html http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/PEOPLE/INJURY/drowsy_driving1/drows...