Sleep is More Important than Food

Sleep: Harvard Business Review | Thursday March 3, 2011  | Tony Schwartz

Sleep: Let’s cut to the chase.

Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for a week. At the end of seven days, how would you be feeling? You’d probably be hungry, perhaps a little weak, and almost certainly somewhat thinner. But basically you’d be fine.

Now let’s say you deprive yourself of sleep for a week. Not so good. After several days, you’d be almost completely unable to function. That’s why Amnesty International lists sleep deprivation as a form of torture.

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2011/03/sleep-is-more-important-than-f.html

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