Confirmed: Lack of Sleep Increases Your Odds of Catching a Cold

The road to good health is paved with plenty of sleep. Parents and doctors have repeated this bit of wisdom for years; however, the link between your sleeping patterns and the onset of sickness was a parable based on correlation - not causation, the ultimate aim of scientific inquiry. But scientists have proven that, as always, your mother was correct: It turns out that people who skimp on sleep are four times more likely to catch a cold than the well rested. Getting Shuteye A te