Do you prefer sleeping more or exercising more? Which will you choose if sleeping more will result in you exercising less or vice-versa? Many people will scoff at this question. If you scoff at a question, it means you ridicule it as stupid or silly. Many will say exercising more doesn’t cause less sleep and sleeping more doesn’t cause less exercise. That’s true but only if they don’t drink coffee. A new study shows there is an upside and a downside to drinking coffee. If something has an upside and downside it means it has something good and something bad.
The study found that people who drink one to three cups of coffee a day are more active. They walk on average an extra 1000 steps a day. This may explain why drinking coffee can result in better health. But the study found that even one cup of coffee a day causes less shut-eye, which is a slang word for sleep. People who drink a cup of coffee a day lose about 36 minutes of nightly sleep. The more they drink, the less they will sleep. Many studies have shown coffee drinkers live longer, have lower rates of diabetes, cancer, and liver disease.
What I can’t understand is why coffee drinkers live longer and have lower rates of serious diseases even though coffee makes them sleep less. Isn’t sleep supposed to repair the body? But I won’t beat my brains out on why coffee drinkers are healthier even if they sleep less. To beat your brains out means to try very hard to understand something.
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Would you rather sleep more or get more exercise? What would you choose if getting more sleep made you exercise less, or if doing more exercise made you sleep less? Many people will scoff at this question. If you scoff at a question, it means you despise and laugh at it as a stupid question. Many people would argue that getting more exercise doesn’t make you sleep less, and getting more sleep doesn’t make you exercise less. This is true – only if they don’t drink coffee. A new study shows that drinking coffee has an upside and a downside – if something has an upside and a downside, it means that it has both advantages and disadvantages.
The study found that people who drank 1 to 3 cups of coffee a day were more active, taking an average of 1,000 more steps per day. This may explain why drinking coffee can bring good health. But the study also found that even drinking just one cup of coffee a day led to fewer shut-eyes — slang for sleep. People who drank 1 cup of coffee a day lost about 36 minutes of nighttime sleep; the more they drank, the less they slept. Many studies have also shown that people who drink coffee live longer and have lower rates of diabetes, cancer and liver disease.
But what I don’t understand is, why do people who drink coffee sleep less, but they live longer and have lower rates of serious illness? Isn’t sleep supposed to restore the body? Why on earth are coffee drinkers healthier even though they sleep less? I don’t beat my brains out — to beat my brains out is to rack your brains to figure something out. Michael Chugani
Chinese translation: seven quarters
Michael Chugani Chu Jianning
