Myths about sleep

Myths about sleep is the title of a segment on ABC Radio National's Health Report last week.  Norman Swan interviewed Nick Glozier, Associate Professor of Psychological and Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney.  Glozier was interested in media claims, and popular opinion, that Australians are sleep-deprived, and wanted to see whether this had any basis in fact.  Using ABS data from a number of surveys, he discovered that we may even be having a little bit more sleep today than we were having twenty years ago.  Australians are also fairly average sleepers compared to other nationalities.