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Wednesday 23 July, 2008
By  geetanjali krishna   10:51 | 20/Apr/2008 |  1 Comment(s)
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Junk Sleep -- A Growing Concern

Distracted by electronic gadgets in their rooms, teenagers are getting fewer quality sleep hours than ever before. A recent UK survey found that 30% of teens barely got 4-7 hours of sleep. Sleep experts say Junk Sleep, sleep that's too little to feed the growing bodies and brains of teens. As bad as junk food, it leads to serious complications.

A whopping ninety eight per cent of the 1000 teenagers between 12 and 16 years old in a recent study in UK, had phones, music systems, or TVs in their bedrooms (almost two-thirds had all three). Twenty three per cent of those interviewed said they regularly fell asleep while watching TV, listening to music, or with "other machinery" still running!

In a national survey conducted in 2006, only 20 percent of American teens reported getting nine hours of sleep a night. Nearly half aid they slept less than eight hours on school nights and 28 percent of high-school students reported falling asleep in school at least once a week!

For more on this, read http://copperwiki.org/index.php/Junk_Sleep

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