Sleep
Thursday 12th April, 2007 13:24 Comments: 0
Professor Jim Horne, director of Loughborough University's Sleep Research Centre, claims that we don't necessarily need eight hours of sleep: "There is a normal distribution - the average sleep length is seven, seven and a quarter hours". Women may need more sleep than men, due to the structure of their brains. And there is evidence that young children are getting too little sleep, with a detrimental effect on their behaviour.