More Sleep = Less Cancer

Fifteen minutes on Google can unearth dozens of foods, beverages, and yogic postures that promise to cut the risk of cancer, but it’s hard to find one that as simple as what was revealed at a recent international meeting on cancer prevention hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR): sleep. WebMD reports that researchers at the National Cancer Institute who reviewed data on nearly 6,000 Maryland women found that among women who got about an hour a day of moderate physical
activity — cancer was 47 percent less frequent for those who got at least seven hours
of nightly sleep.
Read more, and take a nice nap.