But the
end of their task finds them extremely emaciated. Lack of sleep
has made it impossible for them to TRANSFORM THE FOOD INTO NEW
TISSUE.
Any man or woman who has suffered from insomnia will confirm this
statement, that lack of sleep decreases weight and diminishes
vitality more quickly than anything else. ----
Remember this when you brag foolishly about going without sleep!
A man can go forty days without solid food. He can live seven
days, or even longer, without food or water. He cannot live
seven days without sleep. The Chinese, ingenious in torments,
discovered no worse death than killing their victims by
depriving them of sleep.
Of course, every young man can go without sleep for a whole night
occasionally and go on with his work. He can do this because,
from his father and mother, he has inherited a certain amount of
vitality, which, if he knows no better, he can squander stupidly,
just as he can squander, if he will, what money is left to him.
But no man can deprive himself of sleep, or sleep irregularly,
without suffering permanently, without diminishing his chances of
success in the world. ----
Many a woman among those called "fashionable" looks at the
healthy child of a gardener, and wonders that her child is so
different.
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