Right off the page of FoxNews.com...
Well as usual, I'm bored with nothing to do at work so I went 'news viewing'. And the saying,
'We learn something new everyday,' stays true man. Haha...
Look at the picture below and tell me what's wrong?
Firstly as you may have notice, Sinapore apparently doesn't exists.
And, secondly, Malaysia is a small island next to Indonesia...
Well they did get it right in another page but Singapore is still non-existence haha...
I've become more alert in my bored state haha...
That's just wrong man...haha
Another story to entertain you guys. Esp for insomniacs like myself. Beware! haha
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Lack of sleep may be deadly, research shows
September 24, 2007 06:39:50 AM PST
REUTERS - People who do not get enough sleep are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to a large British study released on Monday.
Although the reasons are unclear, researchers said lack of sleep appeared to be linked to increased blood pressure, which is known to raise the risk of heart attacks and stroke.
A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut their sleeping from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk in mortality from all causes and more than double the risk of cardiovascular death.
The findings highlight a danger in busy modern lifestyles, Francesco Cappuccio, professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Warwick's medical school, told the annual conference of the British Sleep Society in Cambridge.
"A third of the population of the UK and over 40 percent in the U.S. regularly sleep less than five hours a night, so it is not a trivial problem," he said in a telephone interview.
"The current pressures in society to cut out sleep, in order to squeeze in more, may not be a good idea -- particularly if you go below five hours."
Previous research has highlighted the potential health risks of shift work and disrupted sleep. But the study by Cappuccio and colleagues, which was supported by British government and U.S. funding, is the first to link duration of sleep and mortality rates.
The study looked at sleep patterns of participants aged 35-55 years at two points in their lives -- 1985-88 and 1992-93 -- and then tracked their mortality rates until 2004.
The results were adjusted to take account of other possible risk factors such as initial age, sex, smoking and alcohol consumption, body mass index, blood pressure and cholesterol.
The correlation with cardiovascular risk in those who slept less in the 1990s than in the 1980s was clear but, curiously, there was also a higher mortality rate in people who increased their sleeping to more than nine hours.
In this case, however, there was no cardiovascular link and Cappuccio said it was possible that longer sleeping could be related to other health problems such as depression or cancer-related fatigue.
"In terms of prevention, our findings indicate that consistently sleeping around seven hours per night is optimal for health," he said.
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Well...interesting right? haha..But can you really blame us for depriving our own sleep. I mean we stay up to study for upcoming exams to be more knowledgeable and to PASS, we stay up late to watch LIVE matches so that we don't have to shut our eyes and ears from annonying friends who can't wait to tell us the results when we rather they don't and we stay up late just because we couldn't sleep right? I mean is it healthier to swallow sleeping pills? haha...I mean you must have agreed to at least one of these reasons right? Unless of course if you're those goody-two-shoe kind then forget you even read my response haha...
Alright...half and hour more to go before I say ciao! haha...Ok lah today not so bad...Did some work here and there haha...
And bloody hell the yankees lost one game can...now their gap between them and boston red sox is 2 games...and only left with this week's games to make up for it...They'll be meeting the Tampa Bay Devil Rays later on but unfortunately it'll not be broadcast here. So only can watch the last second game of the season on Saturday..Hopefully, they'll broadcast their Sunday match too...Then later at 2.40am, Liverpool will meet Reading for the Carling Cup tie...
So GO REDS! GO YANKEES!
Regards,
Baz
