Almost one in three teens are not getting the recommended eight hours of sleep per night.
“What we’re concerned about is this creeping ‘sleepedemic’ where nearly a third of children and youth are reporting sleep deprivation,” Guy Faulkner, a UBC professor of Kinesiology told CBC. “Sleep deprivation is associated with a range of negative health problems and what we really want to do is act now before this problem gets larger.”
The segment starts at 1:25.
