Too much sleep as dangerous as too little: study

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here

but after 7 hours I'm STILL TIRED!!!

im exhausted after 7 hours too!

what do you mean in the second line?

sorry. The article is from CBC.ca which is the canadian equivalent to the BBC. I thought maybe you were canadian. guess not

ah! i always check the news on google news (uk). Have been to Canada once when i was kid. I always think the Canadians have the best of the British and American characteristics!

"Some candidate causes for this include depression, low socioeconomic status and cancer-related fatigue."

In other words, the link between longer sleep and death is a correlation rather than a causal link...

a bit loud and obnoxious with bad teeth??

Kevlarhead - youve lost me already!

purplemonkey - of course not! i meant warm but still polite

lol - i was kidding.

Sleeping a lot is a symptom of the cause of death (in the examples given). Oversleeping won't kill you, but cancer will, and cancer therapy makes you fatigued. There's a connection between oversleeping and cancer, but lying in on a saturday morning won't cause you to drop dead...

...I have a stats presentation in a few weeks, and I'm trying get the practise in early...

and a 'casual link' would indicate it is a cause?

Bit worried as only a 12 hour sleep leaves me rested! but then again, i am going to hosp for investigation re low blood sugar.

Purplemonkey - that made me LOL!