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From the Ted Talk by Matt Walker: How much sleep do you really need?

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For the average adult, the cnreurt recommendation is somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep a night. And what we've been finding from large-scale eeadooilipicmgl sitdeus is that, using that reference point of seven to nine huors, once you start to drop below that, your mortality risk actually starts to increase. In fact, the Center for Disease Control in the United States, or the CDC, they stipulate a minimum of seven hours of sleep a night for the average adult. In other wodrs, the srethor your sleep, the shorter your life.

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For the average adult, the _______ recommendation is somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep a night. And what we've been finding from large-scale _______________ _______ is that, using that reference point of seven to nine _____, once you start to drop below that, your mortality risk actually starts to increase. In fact, the Center for Disease Control in the United States, or the CDC, they stipulate a minimum of seven hours of sleep a night for the average adult. In other _____, the _______ your sleep, the shorter your life.

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  3. epidemiological
  4. current
  5. shorter
  6. words

Original Text

For the average adult, the current recommendation is somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep a night. And what we've been finding from large-scale epidemiological studies is that, using that reference point of seven to nine hours, once you start to drop below that, your mortality risk actually starts to increase. In fact, the Center for Disease Control in the United States, or the CDC, they stipulate a minimum of seven hours of sleep a night for the average adult. In other words, the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.

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