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Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Multiple Studies Reveal ()
Date: July 21, 2014 09:35PM

SLEEP in Fairfax will trash these multiple scientific studies in 3... 2... 1...

Several sleep studies have found that seven hours is the optimal amount of sleep—not eight, as was long believed—when it comes to certain cognitive and health markers, although many doctors question that conclusion.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/sleep-experts-close-in-on-the-optimal-nights-sleep-1405984970?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Truth Teller ()
Date: July 21, 2014 09:51PM

People who sleep something like 7.6 hours per night live longer.

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Teensaredifferent ()
Date: July 21, 2014 10:46PM

These studies discuss optimal sleep for adults. High school students are not adults. Their brains and sleep cycles are different.

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Witch doctors ()
Date: July 21, 2014 11:19PM

Mumbo jumbo from so-called "sleep scientists". No less than others, high school students drink when they are thirsty, eat when they are hungry, and sleep when they are tired. If you actually listen to Phyllis Payne for very long, you will hear her start to whine about how hard it was to wake her kids up at 6:00 am and how she and her husband had to alternate the task because it was so exhausting. This is all about them wanting to sleep in, not the kids.

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Teensaredifferent ()
Date: July 22, 2014 07:49PM

Witch doctors makes a good point. Teens sleep when they are tired. The problem is that they are not tired early enough to get even eight hours of sleep before having to wake for school buses that arrive at six. Ms. Payne has fought for teen health much longer than the few years that her kids were subjected to the punishment of early FCPS start times. If it were about her own need for sleep, she would not still be an advocate for healthy start times. She would have long ago put the matter to rest!

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Then Again ()
Date: July 23, 2014 02:38AM

Phyllis Payne and her little group have too much time and self-worth invested in later high school start/end times to back off now when they see victory so close. It's winning the battle that matters, not the cause, which is long forgotten.

There are many better ways to improve teen health than a 40-minute delay in high school starts.

Also noted: The younger teens who are more vulnerable (middle schoolers) will be starting earlier under Option 3.

Teen health WILL suffer if start times are changed.

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Re: Seven Hours of Sleep is Optimal
Posted by: Curmudgeon ()
Date: July 23, 2014 06:43AM

"for healthy adults"

second line of the article you linked.

dumbass.

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