A recipe for early death

26 March 2015 - 02:15
By Staff reporter

Try to rest easy after reading this. The UK's Daily Telegraph has reported on its website that regularly sleeping for more than eight hours, or less than six, could lead you to an early grave. According to a decade-long study by researchers at Warwick University, in Coventry, England, the optimum number of hours an adult should sleep each night is between seven and eight .

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