How Behavior Affects Your Sleep
Sleep has been shown to have a profound effect on our behavior. An estimated 10 to 15 percent of adults have severe or chronic insomnia. Lack of sleep, though not always caused by insomnia, can interfere with social life, job performance and driving. At least one study has shown that sleep deprivation results in metabolism problems.
A new effort appears to be developing to expand the use of sleeping pills, which because of their potential for abuse have long had a reputation as being in some ways more dangerous than the insomnia they are meant to treat.
