Sunday, April 13, 2014

To Sleep or Not to Sleep

I began to wonder why it is that we don't simply roll over and off the bed. At some point I learned not to turn over and keep turning until I landed on the floor. I expect most of us have that down pat.

Once raising the question I immediately sought some reliable statistics. Fortunately the Center for Disease Control keeps tabs on these numbers. Imagine—1.8 million people pay visits to the ER because they fell out of bed and 400,000 of those visits result in admissions. More startling—450 people die each year. If you're quite young or quite old there's more of a chance for a visit to the ER.

If you live in Russia icicles present a lethal problem—

You're safer on a roller coaster than in your bed. "In the U.S. people take about 900 million rides ..." According to a CBS report— about four people die a year.

There's a moral here—






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