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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/experts-back-beauty-sleep-concept.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The key to looking attractive and healthy is as simple as a good night's sleep, research says" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-experts-back-beauty-sleep-concept.jpg" alt="The key to looking attractive and healthy is as simple as a good night's sleep, research says" /></a></p>
<p>The key to looking attractive and healthy is as simple as a good night&#8217;s sleep, new research suggests.</p>
<p>Experts say they have uncovered the first scientific backing for the concept of &#8220;beauty sleep&#8221;.</p>
<p>Such an expression reveals that &#8220;an individual&#8217;s sleep history may play an integral part in the perception and judgements of his or her attractiveness and health&#8221;, they wrote in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).</p>
<p>&#8220;To date, the concept of beauty sleep has lacked scientific support, but the biological importance of sleep may have favoured a sensitivity to perceive sleep-related cues in others.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems warranted to explore such sensitivity, as sleep disorders and disturbed sleep are increasingly common in today&#8217;s 24-hour society and often co-exist with some of the most common health problems, such as hypertension and inflammatory conditions.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The team, from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, recruited 23 healthy adults aged 18 to 31.</p>
<p>Smokers were excluded from the research and no alcohol was allowed for two days prior to the experiment.</p>
<p>The participants were photographed after eight hours of sleep, and then again after a period of sleep deprivation (31 hours of being continuously awake after a short night&#8217;s sleep).</p>
<p>The pictures were then presented in a random order to 65 untrained observers, who ranked the participants on a scale according to how healthy, attractive or sleep-deprived they looked.</p>
<p>The results showed that those who were sleep-deprived were rated as less healthy (typically scoring 63 versus 68 after a full night&#8217;s sleep). They were also seen as more tired and less attractive.</p>
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