The benefits of a good night’s sleep

Want to improve your health and possibly live longer?

Researchers say you better add good sleep to your list of healthy habits.

A new study finds people who get high quality sleep have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and cancer, compared to people with poor sleep habits.

Researchers say good sleepers also have a longer life expectancy than those who struggle to regularly catch some solid sleep.

Researchers say five healthy sleep habits are critical:

• Getting seven to eight hours of sleep each night
• Falling asleep easily most nights
• Staying asleep most nights
• Waking up rested most mornings
• Not using any sleep medications
  
  

Men in the study who slept well got a larger life expectancy boost than women.  More research will be done on that in the future.