Sleep is a key part of a healthy lifestyle. Sleep problems affect many Americans .
Like eating right and exercising, sleeping well is essential to feeling .
your .
best during the day. It affects how you feel, your relationships and quality of life. .
While you sleep, your brain goes to work, and puts what you learn during the day in your .
memory and reenergizing your body. There is little evidence that lack of sleep causes any .
immediate physiological damage to the body. But there is scientific evidence showing that .
having not enough sleep results in tiredness, difficulties with focusing, performance in the .
classroom and in extracurricular activities can suffer if you do not get enough sleep. It also .
affects how you feel,and how your brain works, and can interfere with work and your home life. .
If your sleep problems go on for a very long time, there may be some risk that it can cause .
some health problems, such as aggravating existing heart disease. Few people actually like .
feeling tired, and that sense of fatigue can make you grumpy and unable to function properly. .
You can increase the risk of accidents because you are less able at thinking your way fast out .
of a dangerous problem. The body does not shut down during sleep, and neither does the .
mind. While you are sleeping, your body continues working around the clock, replacing oldcells .
with new ones and re-energizing your muscles and organs. These are some ways that sleeping .
problems can affect your health.
