{"id":4840,"date":"2008-02-29T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/americans-get-too-little-sleep.html"},"modified":"2008-02-29T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:25:42","slug":"americans-get-too-little-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/americans-get-too-little-sleep.html","title":{"rendered":"Americans get too little sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSN2859197720080229?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=healthNews&amp;rpc=22&amp;sp=true\">get seven hours of sleep<\/a>, I average 4-6 hours.  How about you?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.<br \/>\nAnd all this sleeplessness can be a nightmare for your mental and physical health, CDC experts cautioned, calling sleep loss an under-recognized public health problem.<br \/>\nSleep experts say chronic sleep loss is associated with obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, cardiovascular disease, depression, cigarette smoking and excessive drinking.<br \/>\nThe CDC surveyed 19,589 adults in four states. Ten percent reported they did not get enough sleep or rest every single day of the prior month, and 38 percent said they did not get enough in seven or more days in the prior month.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe National Sleep Foundation recommends adults get seven to nine hours of sleep a night. Children ages 5 to 12 should get nine to 11 hours and those 11 to 17 need 8-1\/2 to 9-1\/2 hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW, I don&#8217;t have any of the health problems on the list.  I know you lefties think it&#8217;s affected my mental health though \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never get seven hours of sleep, I average 4-6 hours. How about you? With late-night TV watching, Internet surfing and other distractions, Americans are getting less and less sleep, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. And all this sleeplessness can be a nightmare for your mental and physical health,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Americans get too little sleep - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/americans-get-too-little-sleep.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Americans get too little sleep - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I never get seven hours of sleep, I average 4-6 hours. 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