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There are a lot of things that happen during your toddler years that you take for granted. I mean, now that you are out there in the adult world, wouldn’t it be great if someone cooked all of your food for you? Or if it was totally normal if you crapped your pants? In my mind, though, there is really one thing from my infancy that I wish I could bring back to adulthood: the mid-afternoon nap. And now there is some research that I may be able to use to convince my boss to let me take a midday siesta.
In a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers looked at the sleeping patterns of 3,000 Chinese adults who were over age 65, 60% of whom napped after lunch for between 30 and 90 minutes. Those who had taken a nap for an hour did better on a series of mental tests, include memorization and basic math problems, then both those who did not take a nap and those who took shorter or longer naps.
In fact, according to The New York Post,
“People who took no naps, short naps, or longer naps experienced a decrease in their mental ability that was four to six times greater than those who took hour-long naps.”
No small difference, my friends. So go ahead and send this to your boss along with a request for an extra hour after lunch to get in a little shut eye. .
[via New York Post]
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Jenna Crowley
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I think it’s probably safe to assume a material percentage of those adults overy 65 probably also shit or pissed themselves.
I bought blinds for my door, and installed them myself on a Sunday. I keep them closed 80% of my day. I just mute my phone, and set my work Skype to away with some shit reason why I’m away. Crank the space heater, and it’s nap city.
I’ll just nap in the bathroom, later. I don’t need anyone’s permission.
I’ve been trying to convince my department that we need some of those nap pods like they have at Google. For whatever reason they aren’t sold on the idea of using state funds or student fees to ensure we get naps in after lunch.
Just put a movie on and take a nap like all teachers
The way Tech has been playing lately just divert some funds form the football team. Pretty sure it’d be better spent on the nap pods.
I completely agree with you. If our athletics department wasn’t already under crippling debt from the new sports performance center they are building, it might be an option.
We got bought out by a japanese company and completed our merger a year ago…still waiting for the nap policy to be in place since its a pretty popular practice there. It’d be nice to actually take a nap instead of expertly propping your head up on your hand to make it look like your reading HR’s latest bullshit memo while sneaking in a nap on The Man!
WOah! Watch out for this guy!
Appropriate article today since I got home from work at 4:30 am and was back at it this morning.
Nap time is wasted on kindergarteners.
The guy I work with that naps at 10am and 2pm without fail should read this
He’s napping too much. If that’s possible.