You really do need your beauty sleep!
You promised yourself you’d get at least eight hours sleep tonight, but you just downloaded the latest Stieg Larson novel to your iPad and now you can’t wait to see what comes next.
You remember you’ve got that hard track workout scheduled for the morning but figure your target marathon is still months away and while you may not be at your peak tomorrow, you can catch up later.
We all know, after all, that sleep is important for top athletic performance and that extra sleep can improve performance and even that lack of sleep makes you fat.
If that isn’t enough to shut your eyes and dream about Lisbet Salander then maybe an appeal to your vanity will do the trick. It turns out that not only does lack of sleep make you fat and slow, we now know it makes you ugly, too.
In the study published in the British Medical Journal, researchers took 23 people and photographed them after a good night’s sleep and after sleep deprivation. They showed those photographs to another group of people who rated them by how attractive they were. As you might guess, they rated the sleep deprived folks as less attractive.
Somehow, people can tell when you are burning the midnight oil and just don’t find it that attractive. I turns out that Mom was right! You really do need your beauty sleep!