Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Too much sleep = diabetes

NEW YORK - Getting too little -- or too much -- sleep may increase a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

"Sleep duration may be a novel risk factor for the development of clinical diabetes," conclude the researchers in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

Dr. Henry Klar Yaggi from Yale University in New Haven, Conn. and two colleagues studied the long-term (15-year) impact of sleep duration on the development of diabetes in more than 1,100 middle-aged and elderly men who were free of diabetes in 1987-1989 and were followed until 2004.

As you can see, sleeping too much might cause diabetes :( I must learn how to sleep 7-8 hours a day and ensure I sleep on time. My sleep is backlogged since years ago and that might be the reason why I need lotsa sleep, haha.

/me crapped at 5:37 PM GMT+8

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