High price we pay for bingeing on 'junk sleep' - the bad habit fuelling the obesity epidemic - Daily Mail 26th May 2008

It is quick, could cause obesity, and is costing the economy millions of pounds in lost productivity. No, not junk food - junk sleep. A quarter of Britons suffer so badly from poor-quality sleep that they are forced to take days off work because of exhaustion, a study suggests. A poll of 4,000 adults found that only 21 per cent are getting a decent eight hours, while one in five gets less than five hours' a night.

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