So-called “night owls” my faces a higher risk for heart attack and stroke, a new study published Wednesday finds.
  • almost1337@lemmy.zip
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I feel like calling being a night owl a “lifestyle” places blame on the person, when it has been shown to be genetic. It feels like vilification of people who live outside of societal norms rather than a call for understanding the difficulties they face and the health impacts from it.

  • lemmylump@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 days ago

    This article is click bait bs. It conclusions find that the high risk factors for heart disease are still smoking, poor diet, and lack of exercise. You combine those with night person. Day person or intermediate person the risk factors only slightly go up for the night person cause they’re a night person living in a morning world.

    Seriously people, just don’t smoke, eat less salt and a green thing, get consistent rest, and fucking move your body.

    • Godric@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 hours ago

      eat less salt

      I live on a diet of sunflower seeds and peanuts. I eat enough salt in a day to bankrupt a small Assyrian city. I will turn into a mummy (Egyptian, not Br*tish) before I stop.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 days ago

      No, the logic still works out it just isn’t nearly as skewed as the article makes it out to be.

      Either you are a night person and forced to be a day person, thus staying up and giving yourself sleep deprivation (hurts your heart among other things) or you manage to create a night schedule where you sleep all day (meaning you will need to supplement your vitamin d levels or, surprise surprise, higher risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, strokes).

      Humans evolved to be active during the day. We also kind of need it for many other reasons than heart disease.