Sleep is Key to a Healthy Life Style: How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?

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How much sleep is really needed? The average adult male needs seven and a half to nine hours of sleep each night. Sleep is a very important act in everyday life because it keeps the body healthy and stable, it keeps the mind focused for a full day, it alters feelings and emotions of the correct amount is not obtained, and it causes car accidents, sometimes fatal, when drivers are driving while sleep deprived.
Each person needs a different amount of sleep in order to keep their body healthy and stable. According to Smith, Robinson, and Segal, the average child, from five to twelve years of age, needs ten to eleven hours of sleep each night while teens only need eight and a half to ten hours of sleep each night. The average adult, eighteen years of age or older, needs seven and a half to nine hours of sleep each night. These studies by Smith, Robinson, and Segal are only the averages, so that means that an adult could make do each day on only six hours of sleep while another person may need ten hours. Therefore, each person’s body and mind need a different amount of sleep each night in order to function each day. “Nevertheless, it’s important to pay attention to your own individual needs by assessing how you feel on different amounts of sleep”(“How Much Sleep Do We Really”). Sometimes, the body can function with a little amount of sleep or maybe it needs a longer amount. It all depends on a specific person’s body at a particular time. If the amount of sleep that an individual needs is not found and therefore is not acquired, the sleep loss increases the risk of high blood pressure, inflammation, weight gain, performance, mood and diseases associated with these risk factors, such as diabetes and heart disease (Mann). With each per...

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