Show WHY Sleep I Is I. So Essential dren and Adults The best answer we can give to the question why do we sleep It Is that sleep cures us of tiredness states an official of ot a prominent In In Insurance luranee company It Is the great healer It allows our bodies to recover recover re reo cover from the fatigue of the days day's activities The average healthy adult spends spend about third one-third of his life In sleep For example a forty forty- year year old old perron who is fa In the habit of sleeping eight hours boura a night will win if he be lives to be seventy sleep for 10 of the 30 years of life left to him Far Par from being a waste of time those thoe 10 years yeara spent in sleep will make possible what he does during the 20 years yeara he is II awake Loss Lou of sleep for a night or two can be made up but too little sleep night after night will undermine the health of a rugged person and turn turna a cheerful individual into a cross crOll irritable one Sleep Is so 0 essential to life and the restoration of tissues that if II we are kept awake over too long a period we can literally go to sleep standing up Children must have the proper amount of sleep steep In order to grow at ata ata ata a normal rate During normal healthy sleep vital activities are reduced or slowed down At this time the body Is b especially free no not only to mend worn-out worn tissues but butto butto to build new ones This building of new tissues is called growing If H a achild achild achild child is to grow properly he must have adequate sleep |