Welcome back, all! The topic I want to focus on this week is sleep. Often we take sleep for granted; however, it is one of the most important parts to becoming a healthy person. An adequate amount of sleep is vital for people of all ages especially for students like myself.
This is such big problem for students around the world today. While students are overworked and drained, they lack sleep. According to “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” estimated that at least 35% of adults (ages 18 to 64) are not getting enough sleep through the night. Let’s put this more in perspective, that’s about 84 million people.
Do me a favor and calculate how many hours of sleep you typically get a night. Those of you that have fitness watches are probably fully aware of this information. Now keep your number in your head for what I am about to tell you. Adults should be averaging 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night. I know that I’ve had weeks (hello finals week), where that just wasn’t the case. Some people can handle it when they are not fully rested, but some end up exhausted mentally, physically, or even emotional. Quick personal story regarding this that I hope you take from this. I had a brilliant idea to go Black Friday Shopping with no sleeping during high school basketball season. This ended with me being sick with pneumonia for weeks. I definitely earned the hard way how important sleep is for someone’s health and wellness.
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle 