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5 Surprising Reasons To Get More Sleep

 

Of course, in a less busy world we’d all grab(夺取) extra shut-eye. But it could have more effect on your health than you think:

 

1. It could make you thinner（稀释剂）

Research in Virginia has found that the less sleep you get, the higher your body mass index tends to be. A Bristol study may have the explanation: people who sleep five hours a night were found to have 15% more ghrelin（饥饿素） (a hormone that boosts hunger) in their bodies and less leptin（蛋白质） (which suppresses it) than those sleeping eight hours.

 

2. It could boost (推进) your memory 

Sleep plays a key role in making new memories stick in the brain. A Harvard experiment showed that subjects taught complex finger movements like a piano scale recalled them much better after 12 hours’ sleep than 12 hours’ wakefulness. Another study showed that working into the night slowed thinking skills, both at the time and during the next day.

 

3. It boosts the immune system

A study of elderly people suffering depression found that those with disturbed sleep had fewer disease-fighting cells in their blood. Moreover, melatonin（褪黑激素）, produced when you sleep, is a cancer-fighting antioxidant（抗氧化剂）. Night-shift workers, whose wake/sleep rhythms（节奏） are disrupted, may have up to 70 times greater risk of breast cancer.

 

4. It can slow down ageing (衰老)

Persistent sleep debt has been shown to affect carbohydrate metabolism （新陈代谢） and hormone function in a way that may increase the severity of age-related chronic（慢性的） disorders. In fact, a large-scale study concluded that people who sleep 6-7hours a night lived longer than those sleeping less than 4.5 hours.

 

5. It could keep you on the straight and narrow

If you’re a child, that is. The depression and low self-esteem often associated with just being a teenager actually correlate with sleep shortage. And young kids who sleep poorly are more than twice as likely to take to drink and drugs in adolescence（青春期）.

 

 

From “Reader’s Digest”, April 2006

易拉罐环 一直暗恋易拉罐

但是易拉罐肚子里装着可乐

请把可乐喝完后

把易拉罐环放进易拉罐里

如果我是那个可怜的易拉罐环

那么你愿意做那个易拉罐吗？

晚上去一朋友家玩，路过林大门口时，见一老者坐地面对着路人。其实，无需多想，都知道他在那里做什么，当然了我并没有存在其他坏心想这些事情。

 

今天么雷声轰轰的一下午，总算是一场大雨一时凉，老者年龄60多岁那样吧，披着张塑料薄膜跪做在人行道上。雨随不大，但是老者的身上还是湿了---其实我并不想仔细的去观察他，因为看多了我心理也很不舒服，中国人太多了！ 我偷望了他一眼，赶紧的缩回眼神，我知道自己不会给他一个钢蹦。我的眼神也不是藐视他的意思，那时，心理突的冒出了一个想法：为什么他不去乞求政府？为什么不去110寻求帮助？他孤身一人？

 

当我经过他身边的时候，我还是看了他一眼，瓷碗里的纸币早已淋湿了，一种无奈而又痛苦的眼神望着我，是我害怕---我害怕的是自己不能去帮助他，害怕自己的心冷了！难怪他不去乞求政府，原来路人都是如此，政府更是怕了---他们更不会去帮助他们······