You Are What You Sleep

If I asked you to think of the last time that you slept poorly, that would probably be easy to recall, wouldn't it? What about the last time you were well-rested? And not just quality sleep for one night, but chronically well-rested, well-rested over a long period of time? That's probably a little harder. For college students, this phenomenon is all too familiar. Having just become self-sustaining adults, students are learning for the first time how to balance work, rest, and fun. The growing pains are showing. Research at the University of Alabama suggests that 60 percent of college students aren't getting enough sleep, compared to 33 percent of the adult population. In fact during my time at Belmont University during which I have met and worked with hundreds of students, I have only met one that was consistent and insistent about her sleep. "I know students who have given up on getting quality sleep because they have come to believe that success is somehow equivalent to feeling tired and stressed most of the time." Lack of sleep has become a sort of status symbol between students, each chalking their lack of sleep up to the amount of work they can produce. Oftentimes, I'll hear fellow students talking about how little sleep they got as the result of a project or how late they will stay up to finish their homework and comparing their habits to the next student. I've even encountered students who think that getting the appropriate seven to nine hours of sleep a night...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news