{"id":47517,"date":"2026-03-27T14:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47517"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:14:22","slug":"coming-across-a-terrible-dilemma-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=47517","title":{"rendered":"Coming across a terrible dilemma | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">I was struck by two adjacent headlines: \u201cMore frequent ejaculations may boost men\u2019s fertility\u201d and \u201cExtra 11 minutes\u2019 sleep each night can reduce heart attack risk\u201d. What\u00a0a terrible dilemma.<br \/><strong>Prof Gareth Williams<\/strong><br \/><em>Rockhampton, Gloucestershire<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Given the impact of stress on the\u00a0risk of heart attacks, I\u00a0wonder\u00a0how the worry about not\u00a0sleeping for an extra 11\u00a0minutes is going to help\u00a0me.<br \/><strong>Richard Barnard<\/strong><br \/><em>Wivenhoe, Essex<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Let\u2019s hope that Brabazon isn\u2019t an entirely appropriate name for the future new town (Letters, 24 March). The Bristol Type 167 Brabazon aeroplane was an utter commercial failure \u2013 aimed at a luxury market that no longer existed. After great expenditure of public money, only\u00a0one prototype was built, and it was eventually\u00a0scrapped.<br \/><strong>Shawn Pearson<\/strong><br \/><em>Bristol<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> On the question of politicians and others in positions of authority learning from their mistakes (Letters, 19 March), I am reminded of Peter\u00a0Cook\u2019s character Sir Arthur Streeb\u2011Greebling, who, when asked\u00a0whether he had learned from his, replied: \u201cCertainly. I have learned from my mistakes and I am sure I\u00a0could\u00a0repeat them exactly.\u201d<br \/><strong>Nick Barton<\/strong><br \/><em>Templecombe, Somerset<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> It is rarely used now, but if you are ever offered a choice of a pint or a pony of porter over here, go for the pint (Letters, 23 March). A\u00a0pony is a regular small wine glass\u00a0or half a glass.<br \/><strong>Siobh\u00e1n N\u00ed Chuanaigh<\/strong><br \/><em>Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by two adjacent headlines: \u201cMore frequent ejaculations may boost men\u2019s fertility\u201d and \u201cExtra 11 minutes\u2019 sleep each night can reduce heart attack risk\u201d. What\u00a0a terrible dilemma.Prof Gareth WilliamsRockhampton, Gloucestershire Given the impact of stress on the\u00a0risk of heart attacks, I\u00a0wonder\u00a0how the worry about not\u00a0sleeping for an extra 11\u00a0minutes is going to help\u00a0me.Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[648,7656,37,7730],"class_list":{"0":"post-47517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-coming","9":"tag-dilemma","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-terrible"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}