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NEW SWEDISH RESEARCH has shown that there is little or no relation between how much sleep people get at night and how fatigued they feel.
“The length of sleep is not a good measurement to analyse whether we get enough sleep or not,” Torbjoern Aakerstedt told AFP of the studies conducted at the Stress Research Institute of Stockholm University.
“It’s genetically conditioned and dependent on age and health,” he said.
Aakerstedt’s team has conducted three different studies, one of which investigated the sleep patterns of nearly 6,000 individuals.
The research suggests that the number of hours slept is of much less importance in determining how a person functions throughout the day.
“If you feel fine and dynamic during the day, you’ve probably slept enough,” said Aakerstedt.
The research, to be published later this year, found the average number of hours slept during a working week is six hours 55 minutes, with an extra hour’s sleep during holidays.
The researcher said that 20-year-olds should sleep eight hours on average, whilst 60-year-olds require only six.
“But there is no general average,” Aakerstedt added. “Twenty-year-olds can sleep even more, but still be tired during the day” as their brain is still developing.
Yet, although more sleep does not mean more energy, no one should sleep too little, as it affects one’s health, he said.
Too little sleep can result in a weak immune system, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, weight gain, workplace incidents and traffic accidents.
- © AFP 2013.
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Same jihad, different country. The US has since 1983 resettled many Somali refugees in Minnesota. And they’ve had some screening issues with both the first and second generation.
“Al Qaeda’s Somali affiliate has claimed credit for a Saturday suicide bombing that killed 10 in Mogadishu, and says one of the men who carried out the attack was a 22-year-old man from Minnesota known to his friends back home as “Bullethead.”
Abdisalan Hussein Ali, who was born in Somalia but raised in Minneapolis, disappeared from Minnesota in 2008.
…he would be the fourth Somali-American to launch a suicide attack in Somalia.
“That is a fundamental change in how we have seen terrorism [since] the attacks of 9/11,” said Napolitano. Since 2006 as many as 30 young Somali men have left the United States to fight in Somalia. The probe into the youths going to fight overseas in Somalia’s war received increased attention from the FBI and DHS officials after Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia, blew himself up in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia Oct. 28, 2008 in an attack that targeted an African Union intelligence post. A second young man from the Seattle area blew himself up in an attack in 2009.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-shabab-suicide-bomber-somalia-american/story?id=14851524
@Marlowemallow: And some are now joining IS instead. The mainstream media, of course, is ‘puzzled’ about why Somali heritage young people would go to fight in Syria. Because it’s apparently difficult to understand that not everyone views the world as divided into nation-states.
“Refugees began settling in Minnesota after the government of Somalia collapsed in 1991. This isn’t the first time the community has struggled to counter the appeal of violent extremism to the state’s Somalis, but is much more puzzling. Somalis have no national or ethnic ties to Syria and Iraq, a link that helped explain why some went to fight with al-Shabab when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006.
Young men joining that terrorist group felt a nationalistic call to defend their nation against rival state Ethiopia, but many of those drawn to the Islamic State were born in the U.S. and have never been to Somalia, let alone Syria. Still in April, six Twin Cities youth were arrested for attempting to join the Islamic State group. At least one of the men has conspired to travel to Syria since 2014, according to prosecutors.
“As far as we know there is no one profile that brings [together] all these people who are leaving,” says Abdisalam Adam, an imam at Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Minneapolis. “Some people say, ‘Oh they are the ones who are not doing well,’ or whatever. That’s not true. There are some of them who have the opportunity of working, some are in school.”
Are any bombings not horrific?
@The Guru: all bombing are horrific.
@The Guru: It’s a quote from the police official who is the source for the story. Captain Mohamed Hussein is unlikely to be implying that Islamist bombings are more horrific than any other kind.
Has not Al-Shabab aligned itself with ISIS?
@Warthog: Think that was part of Boko Haram – they became Islamic State in West Africa.
Lovely group of moderate islamists. Respectors of human rights par excellence. A beacon of humanity to the world.
Little Mogadishu,Minnesota, home to high concentration of Somali support for Al-Shabab and ISIS is now represented by Jew-hater Muslim convert Keith Ellison in the house and is running for DNC leadership.
Ellison has tried to thwart the FBI from blocking the money supply from Minnesota to Al-Shabab.
—”The Little Mogadishu neighborhood is represented by Democrat congressman Keith Ellison, who liberals proudly tout as the first Muslim-American Congressman. Ellison – who famously swore his oath of office on a Koran – has been a key player in public attacks on those seeking to expose the threat of radical Islam, including former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert.
Somali terror cell Al-Shabaab has been actively and successfully recruiting in Ellison’s district for years, even producing a slick recruitment video inviting young men in Minnesota to travel overseas and join the jihad. The video has proven disturbingly effective.—-”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/05/the-texas-terror-connection-to-muslim-congressman-keith-ellisons-minneapolis-district/
What a hole
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