Beauty Sleep It's Not Just For A Youthful Appearance

Getting a good night sleep is key to keeping your skin keep its youthful appearance. Thus, it's earned the name beauty sleep. Beautiful skin is where beauty begins and a youthful appearance is what every woman wants.

But beauty sleep will do more than just give you a youthful appearance, it will reduce your risk of important health problems, such as heart problems too.

There are many reasons why good night's sleep is something everyone of us should strive to have. A recent study in this area should really make you think. It showed that lack of sleep raised blood pressure and increased the risk of both heart attack and stroke.

Modern day life is very busy so getting enough hours of sleep may not always be an option. In fact, many times it simply can't be accomplished. But for the good of your skin and your heart, it's time to step back and reconsider how you live, and what you can change in order to ensure you are able to getting adequate sleep.

The study, by the University of Warwick's, was conducted with 10,000 government workers over 17 years. What it discovered was that those who had under 5 hours of sleep per night significantly increased the risk of death by 1.7 times, and for cardiac death, it was even higher at nearly 2 fold.

It was known before this particular study, that people who work evening and night shifts often experience a variety of health consequences from having to sleep during the day.