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Nature Medicine 14, 477 - 480 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0508-477
Hungry for sleep
Cassandra Willyard1
- Cassandra Willyard is a science writer based in Washington, D.C.
Abstract
For many years, epidemiologists have linked sleep deprivation to poor health. Now, even as the average amount of shuteye people get continues to diminish, new evidence from biological research helps explain how missing out on sleep might contribute to obesity and diabetes. Cassandra Willyard asks what happens when we ignore the sandman.
Late at night, when most people have already brushed their teeth and climbed into bed, Ed Perzanowski arrives to work the graveyard shift at a local talk radio station in Hartford, Connecticut. Every half hour from 11 p.
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