Fill up on weekends - it is harmful to the body!

Many people who are due to a busy schedule you can not normally get enough sleep during the week, choose to compensate these hours on weekends. Scientists have found that this tactic is not good for health.

Who among us does not enjoy the opportunity to sleep in on a Saturday or Sunday? But because of this, then we are fighting sleepiness   the next week. So say researchers at the University of Texas Medical Center, led by Dr. Gregory Carter. They were convinced that compensate for lack of sleep during the week with additional hours of sleep on weekends is impossible.

The longer a person is sleeping on the weekends, the more violated its internal clock, and the harder it then wake up early on Monday morning. Feeling sleepiness   in this case, will continue throughout the working week, as the body simply does not have time to constantly readjust to the new regime.

"There is a popular myth that the weekend you can fill up, - said Dr. Carter. - But a person has an internal clock that regulate circadian rhythms of the body. If a Saturday or Sunday you sleep for one or two hours longer, exactly as much" translate arrows "hours. And when on Monday there is a need to get up early, you feel completely broken and sleepy."

Dr. Carter recommends to deal with lack of sleep than using extra sleep in the morning, and the earlier you go to sleep at night. Including Saturday and Sunday. And lack of sleep can be compensated for the work week by eight hours of rest in the weekend, but not prolonged in the morning and start earlier in the evening.

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