{"id":9933,"date":"2006-10-09T08:18:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/09\/the-cure-is-worse-than-the-disease.html"},"modified":"2006-10-09T08:18:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:18:54","slug":"the_cure_is_worse_than_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/the_cure_is_worse_than_th.html","title":{"rendered":"The cure is worse than the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to make your Mondays less blah? Simple. Just don’t sleep in on the weekends<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A new study has found that lazy Saturday and Sunday lie-ins can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week.<\/p>\n

Flinders University sleep expert Leon Lack said people often used the weekend to catch up on sleep lost during the week. But he told the Australasian Sleep Association Conference in Perth that while this might help pay off a “sleep debt”, it came at a cost.<\/p>\n

“We’ve discovered that these sleep-ins are actually putting your body out of whack enough to change your Sunday night bedtime and set you up for Monday blues,” Professor Lack told AAP.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They can take my weekend sleeping-in when they pry it from my snug, insensate fingers …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want to make your Mondays less blah? Simple. Just don’t sleep in on the weekends. 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