“You snooze, you lose, A history of sleep from the premoderns to today’s health geeks” by Sophie McBain in the New Statesman is a brilliant and amusing account of the growing interest of the so-called “sleep revolution”, popularised in the United States by Arianna Huffington. She goes through the evidence backing up the concept that little sleep may be harmful to health. The only explicit quote you will find is of research carried out at the University of Warwick (sic!). She writes with wit and humour and shows a great deal of scepticism at times. I particularly like her quote “A true sleep revolution would be a campaign against poverty, low-paid and insecure labour, poor housing, violence, mental illness”, wrapping up the spirit of our Sleep, Health & Society Programme overall objective.

Read the full article here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2016/08/you-snooze-you-lose-why-sleep-back-agenda