Shattered teens subsisting on 'junk sleep'

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Researchers have fingered electronic gadgets as the primary cause of the UK's

kids simply not getting enough kip, the BBC reports.

The Sleep Council polled 1,000 teenagers, and almost a quarter 'fessed up to

falling asleep" watching TV, listening to music or with other equipment still running,

more than once a week". Pretty well all the young 'uns had either a phone, TV

or stereo in their bedroom, and two thirds boasted all three.

The upshot is that a third of 12 to 16-year-olds quizzed said they slept for "between

four to seven hours a night", while experts say eight hours is required. And while

40 per cent admitted they felt a bit weary during the day, just 10 per cent "placed

much importance on getting a good night's sleep".

The Edinburgh Sleep Centre's Dr Chris Idzikowski warned: "This is an incredibly

worrying trend. What we are seeing is the emergence of 'Junk Sleep' - that is sleep

that is of neither the length nor quality that it should be in order to feed the brain

with the rest it needs.

"Youngsters need to be taught a healthy lifestyle includes healthy sleep as well as

healthy food. The message is simple: switch off the gadgets and get more sleep."

Professor Jim Horne, big cheese down at Loughborough's Sleep Research Centre,

quite rightly suggested urging teens to get their heads down is "easier said than done".

He concluded: "I have two teenage kids, and the advice will just fall on deaf ears."

[AtlantiCat 0]

Obviously they're not gamer geek kids. Gamer geeks sleep 12 hours a day whether they need it or not....

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

[mawilson 2,133]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

Huh?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

Huh?

A master remote that switches all our gadgets off. Can you imagine a week of being completely unplugged? Gandhi could do it.

[mawilson 2,133]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

Huh?

A master remote that switches all our gadgets off. Can you imagine a week of being completely unplugged? Gandhi could do it.

Unplugged? :o

Non comprende.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

Huh?

A master remote that switches all our gadgets off. Can you imagine a week of being completely unplugged? Gandhi could do it.

Unplugged? :o

Non comprende.

Nirvana awaits you, my heathen brother.

[almaty 19]

Someone should invent a device that unplugs us from the rest of them.

Huh?

A master remote that switches all our gadgets off. Can you imagine a week of being completely unplugged? Gandhi could do it.

Gandhi could do it.

a gentleman indeed