Being Early to Rise Could Kill You Faster, Says a New Oxford University Study
A neuroscientist from the University of Oxford says that lack of sleep is just as bad as smoking.
Professor Russell Foster blames lack of sleep for a number of health problems, and he compares the brain activity of early risers to that of inebriated people.
Foster is the director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, which has called for more people to get to bed early.
Not only does lack of sleep do damage to the brain, he says, but working at night can cause premature aging and is linked to an increased risk of developing cancer, heart disease, and Type II diabetes.
Claims like that are backed up by French research out of the University of Toulouse, which showed that workers who had been on the night shift for 10 years aged by an extra six-and-a-half years compared with ...
