Monday, February 12, 2007

this made my day..

ej i will have done 3 posts today!! WOW..

this article made my day....

Regular naps prove good for the heart: study

A six-year study of nearly 24,000 Greek adults found that those who consistently took midday naps had a lower risk of dying from heart disease.
"Having a siesta reduces your probability of dying by about one third third," Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, one of the study's senior authors, told CTV News British Columbia.
Researchers found that those who slept at least three times a week, for a minimum of 30 minutes, had a 37 per cent lower risk of dying from heart disease.
Employed men showed stronger benefits from napping than unemployed men, said researchers at the University of Athens Medical School.
"We interpret our findings as indicating that among healthy adults, siesta, possibly on account of stress-releasing consequences, may reduce coronary mortality," lead author Androniki Naska wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The study also showed that occasional nappers were less likely to die from heart problems than those who did not take naps, but researchers said the benefit was not significant.
Of the 792 men and women that died during the follow-up period, 133 died from heart disease. About half of the total subjects took naps.
None of the subjects, who ranged in age from 20 to 86, suffered from illness at the beginning of the study.

1 comment:

Ej said...

Ahh I could really use a nap - of course it is 10:45 pm so maybe I should just go to bed ;-) Keep posting! I'll harrass you otherwise ;-)

xxoo