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Well, it's little friday again, and all I can say is THANK GOODNESS, because I'm whooped. I went from getting up pretty much on time on Monday, to having to drag myself out of bed more and more over my body's objections each day.
On that note, there was an interesting segment on the Today show yesterday about how artificial light can increase your chances of cancer. Apparently, melatonin, which has all kinds of health benefits like killing cancer cells and boosting your immune system, is only manufactured by the body in absolute darkness. So sleeping with a night light on, watching TV late at night, or too much ambient light through your windows causes a shortage. The segment even went so far to say that night shift workers risk of cancer, especially sex hormone cancers like breast, testicular, and ovarian cancer can be as much as 48% higher, and children sleeping with night lights run a higher risk of leukemia.
Two things about this are noteworthy: 1. How scary is it that after years of giving our children night lights we might have been increasing their risk of such a horrible disease?
2. The segment discussed how this was an "avoidable risk" and reccommended getting at least NINE HOURS of sleep to avoid it. NINE HOURS??? What adult do you know who actually has time to sleep for nine hours a night??
posted by Rachel at
7:11 AM
2 Comments:
I feel you... I didn't get home until 1am last night, so you can imagine what time I ewnt to sleep after I made lunch and whatnot
There are so many conflicting things on the news and in magazines. Who knows what to believe anymore. I was listening to NPR the other day and the man said adults should only get 7 hours of sleep a night because studies have shown people who get more have a earlier mortality rate. These days I am lucky to get four hours a night and those are fitful.
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