A new study finds a link between adequate sleep, earlier bedtimes and heart-healthy behavior. Credit: University of Delaware/Jeffrey C. Chase
Study connects Early Bedtime and ‘Adequate’ sleep with Heart Healthy choices. Early-to-bed, early-to-rise approach aligns much better with cardiovascular health. Sleep deficits and poor-quality sleep have been linked to obesity and a myriad of health problems, but this study shows that when it comes to promoting healthy hearts, it’s not a matter of getting more sleep. It’s a matter of getting adequate sleep at optimal times. Doing that seems to reduce the kind of behaviors – smoking, sedentary lifestyles and poor dietary choices – that put hearts in harm’s way.
The study examined the duration and approximate timing of sleep to see what patterns might...
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