Like good sex or a big bowl of spaghetti bolognese, sleeping for an extended period of time?as in, way more than the usual five hours you get on the average weekday?is one of life’s fundamental joys. So simple, so good. And yes, like most truly enjoyable things, it turns out that oversleeping is almost definitely really, really bad for you. Go figure. Researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia conducted a study observing the lifestyles of over 200,000 people aged 45 and older over six years. They looked into self-reported “risk behaviors,” like smoking, high alcohol intake, poor diet, ...
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