Sleep is very important.<br>Did you know that sleep is more important than food? A person who does not sleep dies faster than a person who does not eat.<br>Let’s say you go to sleep 12 hours late.<br>It will take your body about three weeks to return to normal.<br>We spend about a third (1/3) of our lives in sleep.<br>That’s about 121 days a year!<br>How much sleep do we need? We are all different.<br>A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day.<br>Children 6 to 12 years old need an average of 10 to 12 hours of sleep.<br>Teenagers need 9 to 10 hours to sleep.<br>An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a night.<br>There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep.<br>Others need 10 hours of sleep.<br>After the age of 5o, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.<br>We need less sleep as we get older.<br>Most people have some nights when they cannot sleep.<br>About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep.<br>Many of these people cannot fall asleep.<br>The name of this problem is insomnia.<br>The word insomnia means “no sleep”.<br>Some people say, “I didn’t sleep all night.” <br>But that’s not really true.<br>They may sleep lightly and wake up several times.<br>In the morning, they only remember he times they were awake, so they think they were awake all night.<br>This is not a new problem.<br>Many famous people in history had insomnia.<br>Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep.<br>Benjamin Franklin, the famous statesman and inventor, had four beds.<br>He moved from one to the other to fall asleep.<br>King Louis XIV of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep In one of them.<br>Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way.<br>He lay on his side across the end of the bed! ...
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