Getting an adequate amount of sleep is just as important for your health as eating right and living an active lifestyle. Yet, we skimp on it all the time. Even some people who make certain to exercise and eat well still short themselves by sleeping only a few hours a night. Just how much does sleep affect our health? Men's Health magazine broke it down like this:

8 Hours of Sleep - Improves your problem-solving ability by 300 percent compared to those who burn the midnight oil.

Less Than 6 Hours of Sleep - Can harm cognitive skills as much as two full nights of sleep deprivation.

Less Than 4 Hours of Sleep - Results in a 24 percent increase in appetite, with especially strong cravings for sugar, salt, and starch.

0 Hours of Sleep - Not sleeping for even 17 hours straight impairs driving as much as a blood-alcohol of 0.5 percent (so, you can imagine what not sleeping for a full 24 hours does to you).

And with that, I'm off to bed!!