Not many of us are aware, but lack of sleep can do a lot more damage than just make us chronically cranky — it could lead to a host of complications including high blood pressure, obesity and type-2 diabetes.
Research has shown that people who sleep less than five hours have more chances of having diabetes than those who get around seven to eight hours of shut-eye every night.
"Sleep duration has been linked to type-2 diabetes. This impact is observed even in individuals who are not clinically suffering from type-2 diabetes — both short sleepers (less than five hours of sleep per night) and long sleepers (more than nine hours of sleep per night) had impaired glucose tolerance with low insulin sensitivity index."
People suffering from diabetes have insomnia and other sleep problems and in such patients, sleep scarcity poses grave danger — a few nights of poor quality sleep can push them over the edge, say experts.
My parents always say this will happen to me because I never sleep. I sleep like 11 hours; it's just during the day usually (thank god I'm homeschooled)
