Did you know that 40% of Americans don’t get the recommended amount of sleep for their age group. Many of these people do not believe that sleeping and napping are very important to their health due to their hectic life’s and routines. Sleeping is essential to the human body, while napping is beneficial as well.
To begin, napping is not as critical as sleeping, but is still very beneficial. Napping can benefit all age groups on a daily basis. Napping can also be very beneficial to many professions that have unusual job schedules including astronauts, firemen, police officers, and many medical professions. Taking short naps can help you in an abundance of medical ways to! For example, recent studies tested students taking a 45 minute nap after a mental stress test and an average amount of the students had lower blood pressure after the test and taking a nap. “After a nap, people tend to be happier and more alert. They do better work and avoid mistakes (Source 2, Paragraph 19).” Nappers may have better long term health than non-nappers. …show more content…
A lack of sleep or bad sleeping habits can result to negative affects to your health. “Sleep deficiency can affect people even if you may or may not get the total amount of sleep recommended for your age group (Source 1, Paragraph 8).” Many people neglect their sleeping needs and it affects them horribly in the long run. For example, every person has an “internal clock”; these internal clocks work hourly and act somewhat like shift workers. When they get disrupted frequently the internal clock gets mixed signals and gets thrown off by many hours due to their privation of sleep. Without sleep many people begin to become drowsy making them not be able work at a higher level that they are capable