Which Is Worse, Skipping Exercise Or Missing Sleep?

Both sleep and exercise are key to great health.

Some research suggests that men who sleep well could live five years longer than those who don’t; poor sleep, especially in midlife, has even been linked to a higher dementia risk.

And a 2012 paper found that regular physical activity may increase our lifespans by 0.4 to 4.2 years once you remove other confounding factors.

But new research, published in the journal Communications Medicine, has found that only about 13% of people globally achieve both seven to nine hours of sleep and at least 8,000 steps a day.

So, seeing as people’s lives don’t seem, on average, to fit well onto standard recommendations, scientists wanted to see how people should prioritise their habits.

Sleep may be best

The study’s lead author,

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