Arianna Talks Sleep On 'CBS This Morning' (VIDEO)

Arianna appeared on 'CBS This Morning' to discuss the health benefits of sleep.

"It's important to prioritize it, to really make an appointment with your sleep the way you make an appointment to wake up. Follow certain rules, like not charging your devices next to your bed," she said.

Arianna, a staunch advocate for sleep, also addressed the consequences of not sleeping enough. Among them: heart disease, high blood pleasure, diabetes.

"4 years ago, I fainted from exhaustion, hit my head on my desk, broke my cheekbone, got 4 stitches on my right eye", she said.

Watch her full appearance in the clip below and check out HuffPost Healthy Living for more tips on how to stay rested.

 

Comments

[Terra Ziporyn Snider]

11:38 AM on 06/12/2012

As the co-director of StartSchoolLater.net, a grassroots coalition dedicated to ensuring school hours in sync with sleep needs (and circulating an online petition for a minimum acceptable school start time - tinyurl.com/82leprp), I want to thank Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post for continuing efforts to spread the word about sleep. Ultimately, disregard and even scorn for sleep is a societal problem that reflects ignorance about sleep's fundamental place alongside diet and exercise as a pillar of public health. These attitudes won't change without top-down efforts to prioritize sleep. These efforts must also be directed toward our youngest citizens, however, and include not just talk but also action, starting with school hours that allow tweens, teens, and young teachers to get sufficient sleep. This just isn't happening now, and won't so long as we keep pretending that running middle and high schools from 7 am until about 2 pm is in any way acceptable. This is where social media, and advocacy by national opinion leaders, may be able to turn the tide, both in "raising consciousness" and in spurring the collection action about sleep and school hours that may well be necessary to resolve this complicated but critical issue.

[valgonza08]

10:37 AM on 06/12/2012

LOL on Sunday when I was in deep sleep after working hard all day and getting only 4 hours of sleep for the last 3 days....my husband WOKE me up so I could hear what they were saying in the news about sleep deprivation.

I don't think he got the message!