Re: A periodic caveat

[Guest guest]

As I try to say periodically, anything I write is from my

experience. Any advice I pass on is advice I've gotten from people

whom I consider respectable sources, and is always advice that at

least seemed to work for me. I apologize

By the way, the recommended amount of sleep for an adult is 9 hours.

I refuse to feel any more guilt about needing 10 and occasionally

more...

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Mark -

Good general advice reminder for just about anything that gets

posted on the board.

As for the recommended amount of sleep for an adult - the proper,

correct, whatever, recommendation is whatever amount of sleep YOUR

body needs at the time. Period. One person might be able to

function perfectly fine with six hours and another might need 12.

One person might end up with a backache from more than 7 hours and

another might end up walking into walls with closed eyes with 10.

These one size fits all, cookie cutter, put the square peg in the

round hole, type things are mostly just crap in my opinion. And

also in my opinion, frankly more often than not do more harm

psychologically than they do good. I don't even want to think about

all the unnecessary mental stress and anguish that has been caused

to millions of people in the last fifty years with all this nonsense

about ideal weight based on height or body-mass index garbage or

whatever the current fad of the day is. Or in this case, some guilt

trip because you need more sleep than someone else. What, that makes

you lazy? I don't think so.

Hang in there. And if 10 hours isn't enough sometime, just do what

we used to say in anatomy class: Contract the Extensor Digitorum

tendons associated with the middle and distal phalanges of the

second finger of either hand and display the result to whoever is

giving you lip.

Mike