We are a massively sleep deprived society - and many of us are also on a first name basis with Dave, Jay, and Conan.
The problem? According to an article in the LA Times Health Blog “Booster Shots”, “Almost seven in 10 Americans spend some part of their final two waking hours each day in front of the television, and most let television programming—not their level of sleepiness or their need for a full night’s sleep—dictate when they go to sleep...”
Roughly 40% of American adults sleep fewer than seven to eight hours, even though doing so raises their risk of daytime sleepiness, obesity, illness and even death… .
So if Americans are going to close their yawning sleep gap, they’ll need to do it by either leaving the TV off at day’s end or taking the bold step of turning it off in the middle of the show they’ve tuned in to.
"TV is Americans' principal pacifier, sleep stealer"
