Poor quality sleep can shave years off your life, and these effects may be magnified if you don’t get enough physical activity.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that getting more exercise may help counter some of the health risks known to accompany poor quality sleep, new research shows.
Folks who scored low in both sleep and exercise categories were 57% more likely to die from heart disease, stroke and cancer over more than a decade of follow-up when compared with those who reported getting better sleep and more exercise.
“Physical inactivity seems to amplify the health risks of poor sleep patterns in a synergistic way,” said study co-author Emmanuel Stamatakis.
“The mortality risk from physical inactivity and poor sleep combined is larger than the sum of the separate risks of poor sleep and physical inactivity,” added Stamatakis, a professor of physical activity, lifestyle and population health at the University of Sydney in Australia.
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Many Gedolei Yisroel have been sitting and learning for over 18 hours straight, no exercise and little sleep and lived to ripe old ages. All these scientists researchers are nonsense. A person will not live longer than he’s meant to live, with or without exercise.
A Gadol is above Teva.
11:49, many Gedolei Yisroel didn’t do any parnosa hishtadlus either. So, when you become such a tsadik that you stop caring about money(completely!), then you can stop caring about physical health and physical self-defense. Until then, you are just trying to hypocriticize your way out of your iniquity.