Sleep. It is one of the most important aspects for leading a healthy and jubilant life. It is a fundamental human requirement which can dictate the productivity, mood, performance, and other aspects of one’s everyday lives. The most important stages for humans to clock-in lots of sleep are in their younger years, yet it seems as if the adolescence is when people receive the least amount of rest. Lack of sleep in teens is a result of their crowded schedules and school beginning too early for the students to get sufficient amounts of rest. The teens also suffer greatly from this deprivation and are affected by behavioral and academic problems, and even put their lives in danger.
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As students reach the age of sexual maturity, the body’s circadian rhythm, a chemical internal clock in human bodies is shifted to approximately two hours later than ordinary. This results that the teenager, who was used to falling asleep at 9 PM, to not be able to get rest until 11 PM or even later (Gavin). This shift is also followed by a need for the adolescent to wake up two hours later than customary (Sleep in Adolescents (13-18 Years)). This change is not related to the amount of sleep the student received earlier but is a change that occurs without the control of the individual. As a result, older adolescents have higher rates of being sleepy in the daytime than their younger counterparts. As stated in the earlier research, a high school student requires approximately nine hours of sleep every night, which means that a teen with a perfect sleep pattern would be asleep at eleven at night to wake up at eight AM every day. Yet with this generation’s schedules for high school, such a sleep pattern is impossible for nearly all students throughout the …show more content…
The only aspect risking a student’s life while in adolescence from lack of sleep was the possibility of a car accident. These factors can be eliminated with a few nights of rest and regeneration. Yet many do not realize the new research brought out by scientists’ observations. They found that the long term effects of continuous sleep deprivation could cause life-threatening diseases which hinder the lives of people. With repeated nights of sleep less than the duration of 7 to 8 hours, the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, obesity, and other health issues skyrocket (Colten). For example, a study was performed of nearly 500 people and found that by the time they reach 27 years of age, individuals with short amounts of sleep (6 hours of less a night) were 7.5 times more likely to have trouble controlling their body mass index. In relation to diabetes, a study was performed where 11 healthy male volunteers were not allowed to sleep for over 4 hours a night for six nights. After this short time of sleep deprivation, scientists still reported that this lack of sleep led to the participants having an impaired glucose tolerance. This is a direct connection to the development of diabetes. People who receive 5 hours of less sleep a night than those who get 7 are actually shown to be 2.5 times more likely to have diabetes
Teenagers and young adults in high school and college are infamous …show more content…
As students reach the age of sexual maturity, the body’s circadian rhythm, a chemical internal clock in human bodies is shifted to approximately two hours later than ordinary. This results that the teenager, who was used to falling asleep at 9 PM, to not be able to get rest until 11 PM or even later (Gavin). This shift is also followed by a need for the adolescent to wake up two hours later than customary (Sleep in Adolescents (13-18 Years)). This change is not related to the amount of sleep the student received earlier but is a change that occurs without the control of the individual. As a result, older adolescents have higher rates of being sleepy in the daytime than their younger counterparts. As stated in the earlier research, a high school student requires approximately nine hours of sleep every night, which means that a teen with a perfect sleep pattern would be asleep at eleven at night to wake up at eight AM every day. Yet with this generation’s schedules for high school, such a sleep pattern is impossible for nearly all students throughout the …show more content…
The only aspect risking a student’s life while in adolescence from lack of sleep was the possibility of a car accident. These factors can be eliminated with a few nights of rest and regeneration. Yet many do not realize the new research brought out by scientists’ observations. They found that the long term effects of continuous sleep deprivation could cause life-threatening diseases which hinder the lives of people. With repeated nights of sleep less than the duration of 7 to 8 hours, the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, obesity, and other health issues skyrocket (Colten). For example, a study was performed of nearly 500 people and found that by the time they reach 27 years of age, individuals with short amounts of sleep (6 hours of less a night) were 7.5 times more likely to have trouble controlling their body mass index. In relation to diabetes, a study was performed where 11 healthy male volunteers were not allowed to sleep for over 4 hours a night for six nights. After this short time of sleep deprivation, scientists still reported that this lack of sleep led to the participants having an impaired glucose tolerance. This is a direct connection to the development of diabetes. People who receive 5 hours of less sleep a night than those who get 7 are actually shown to be 2.5 times more likely to have diabetes