Adults who don't stick to a regular schedule are often less healthy, new research shows. Photo / 123RF
For most adults these days, achieving the goal of seven hours' sleep a night is a stretch.
And yet, scientists at Duke University in the US are here to add one more thing to your well-being to do list: set a strict bed time.
New research published yesterday in the
journal Scientific Reports shows adults who don't stick to a regular schedule are often heavier, less healthy, with higher blood sugar levels and higher blood pressure.
The researchers said it wasn't clear whether those symptoms were the things that caused people to have more erratic sleep, or whether erratic sleep causes those symptoms.
"Perhaps all of these things are impacting each other," said Jessica Lunsford-Avery, PhD, an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioural sciences and the study's lead author.
