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How does rest and sleep effect the health of the child?

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Sleep helps a child's brain regenerate brain cells and also release growth hormones thus helping in the growth of the child. It is believed that sleep also helps a child increase immunity levels which is intitutive because a tired body would mean a week body. Thus the older a human gets, s/he needs progressive lesser sleep.

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