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You may have heard about the latest thing that will kill you.

Welcome back, a new study from the University of Sydney.

Hey, you going, might.

Finds it sleeping more than nine hours a day is associated with a higher risk of premature debt.

Coming up, a new study about sleep. And whether too much of a good thing is actually a bad thing.

The Daily Mail wrote, too much sleep is as bad for your health as smoking and drinking alcohol.

And Cosmopolitan wrote, oh great, oversleeping can kill you.

Extra sleep.

That one thing we all thought was sacred, unequivocally good for us,

is deadly? Well, as you might expect, if you're a regular listener, this study isn't as scary as it sounds. It pointed to statistical associations not cause and effect. The researchers hedged

their findings, conceding that the sample wasn't representative, and they even caution against

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