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• Youden 7y ago
  > If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults. People at different ages require different amounts of sleep in order to be healthy. Adults require less than children [0]. Also, one of the big problems for teenagers (the subject of the article) is that their circadian rhythm is out of phase from adults, shifted later about 2 hours [1]. Early start times don't just reduce sleep, they're also just the wrong time of day. Telling a teen to wake up at 7am is like telling an adult to wake up at 5am. [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/features/sleep/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/features/sleep/index.html [1]: https://www.uclahealth.org/sleepcenter/sleep-and-teens https://www.uclahealth.org/sleepcenter/sleep-and-teens
  • James_Henry 7y ago
    It probably would be healthier for a lot of adults. They even find that because of set work start times, the average adult in the western edge of a time zone ends up sleeping less than the one in the eastern edge.
• testis321 7y ago
  > This leaves the question: why does work start so early? If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults. If you work 7-15h (3pm american), you still have some daylight time left at home, after work so you can do other, non-work stuff that requires daylight. If you sleep until 9 and work 10-18h, you get zero off-work daylight for most of the year.