reading #15

I read an article about fighting colds and how sleep effects one getting a cold. The more sleep you get, the lower the chance of catching a cold. Researchers paid healthy adults $800 to have cold viruses sprayed up their noses and wait in a hotel for five days to see if they got sick. The people who had eight hours of sleep were much less likely to get sick than those who slept for less than seven hours. Also, people who slept less than seven hours a night in the weeks before they became exposed to the virus, were three times as likely to catch a cold than the ones who slept longer. I think that one should get the sleep while they can to prevent from getting colds, since its no fun to be sick!