US doctors warned, excessive reading of eBooks at the time of sleeping damages your sleep and health. Harvard Medical School team members compared reading paper books via eBook’s which emits light and can also cause eye infections.

They found that reading from eBooks may cause many health factors like poor quality sleep and felt tired the next day morning. According to research, people should avoid reading during evening. There are many other dangers of light emits before bedtime which can badly effect your mind and make you lazy.

Anne-Marie Chang, PhD, corresponding author, and associate neuroscientist in BWH’s Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders said:
“We found the body’s natural circadian rhythms were interrupted by the short-wavelength enriched light, otherwise known as blue light, from these electronic devices”.

“Participants reading an LE-eBook took longer to fall asleep and had reduced evening sleepiness, reduced melatonin secretion, later timing of their circadian clock and reduced next-morning alertness than when reading a printed book.”

During the two-week inpatient study, twelve participants read LE-e-Books on an iPad for four hours before bedtime each night for five consecutive nights. This […]