Over Sleeping and under Sleeping Surprising Negative Impact on Your Life.....

                             Your bed might be the death of you. (Photo: Pentiumscar)

Sorry, but your chair and your bed may be cutting your life short.

Investigators from the University of Sydney examined the lifestyle patterns of 231,048 participants in the 45 and Up Study — Australia’s largest cohort study — in order to determine the most likely risk behaviors that are contributing to premature deaths in middle-aged and older adults.

The habits that were highlighted in the questionnaire included smoking, high alcohol intake, poor diet, physical inactivity, prolonged sitting, and unhealthy (short or long) sleep duration. 

During the six-year follow-up period, more than 15,600 deaths were registered. And out of the 96 possible risk combinations, the 30 most commonly occurring combinations accounted for more than 90 percent of the participants. 

The findings, which were published in the journal PLOS Medicine, revealed the following:

• A person who oversleeps (more than nine hours a night), over-sits (more than seven hours a day), and under-exercises (less than 150 minutes each week) is more than four times as likely to die early compared to someone who doesn’t practice these habits.

• A person who smokes, has a high alcohol intake, and lacks in the sleep department (less than seven hours a night) is also four times more likely to pass away before their time.

These two-step unhealthy actions were linked to doubling the risk of an early demise:

• Being physically inactive and getting too much sleep

• Being physically inactive and sitting too much Smoking and high alcohol intake.