Early Risers Happier, Healthier

If you're not a morning person by nature, perhaps this will convince you to lay off the snooze button: A new study finds that those who get out of bed by 6:58am, on average, do better in the workplace and have a lower chance of being depressed, stressed, or overweight. "Morning people tend to be healthier and happier as well as having lower body mass indices," says one researcher.

Morning people also got their chores done more quickly and got their kids to school earlier, the Telegraph reports—and that could have something to do with why they tend to do better overall. "Maybe morning types are just better suited to this industrial world we are in than late risers," the researcher theorizes. Evening people were found to get out of bed by 8:54am, on average. (On weekends, early risers awoke at 7:47am, compared to 10:09am for late risers.)