An Afternoon Snooze Once Or Twice A Week Lowers The Risk Of Heart Attack, Claims New Study

Science is officially on our side. Most of the time, researchers around the world come up with new scientific findings about how everything that makes us feel good is not good for us. Consider, eating pizza, adding sugar to your coffee or binge-watching Netflix all night. But not this time.

The research team from the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland has arrived at the following result: people who sleep in the afternoon once or twice a week are 50% less likely to get a heart attack and stroke compared to those who don't sleep in the afternoon.

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The research team studied 3,400 people aged 35 to 75 for an average of five years. During the five years there were 155 heart attacks or strokes among the people being studied and those napping once to twice weekly were found to have an almost halving the risk (48 per cent) compared with those who didn't nap at at all.

So those who are blessed enough to sleep during the afternoon, go ahead and get those few minutes of bliss. It's good for you, backed and proven by science.