SLEEP.
Those who are passing through middle into old age require much less sleep than when they wore young. They often worry themselves needlessly by thinking they are suffering from inso.mnia. For the average adult of forty and over probably six hours' sleep at night is ample. Many people impair their health by sleeping too long, because after a few hours of this state bacteria accumulate in the mouth, throat and nasal cavities, with resulting septic absorption. Elderly people who get to sleep at 11.30 may we'll be called at 6.30. Those who do mental work require less sleep than manual labourers. If we sleep for eight or nine hours it requires a greater effort to rouse ourselves than if we sleep not more than seven hours. Those who sleep too long, therefore, get the erroneous idea that they need more and more sleep than other people because they are drowsy on waking- _________
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 7 (Supplement)
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153SLEEP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 7 (Supplement)
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