‘A good laugh and a long sleep are best cures in the doctor’s book’ is a popular Irish saying which seems to be an objective of researchers, who have concluded in their study that good amount of sleep is crucial for health as it reduces the chance of being diagnosed with type-2 diabetes.

The study, published in Diabetes Care, has explained that sleep is a vital thing for our body and when one person is in deep sleep, his brain passes through several phases which help a person remain protected from type-2 diabetes as it does not let hempen the process of insulin secretion as well as blood sugar levels.

Helen Lunt, who is a diabetes physician at Canterbury, said that appropriate sleep is anything between six to eight and half hours and this keeps body sugar level in regulated.

This research would act as an eye opener for those who do not give value to sleep and for those who remain online at late hours as disrupted sleep could affect sleep hormones like cortisol. And, disrupted sleep means high cortisol levels and that further leads to diabetes. But undisrupted sleep should be combined with balanced diet, regular exercise to get full benefit.