The French adore their dish 'n' kips; RELAXING.

THE French spend more time eating and sleeping than anyone in the world.

They kip for an average of nine hours a night and take more than two hours over their food, a survey has revealed.

Americans are second in the table of sleepyheads, with 8.5 hours in bed.

Despite their love of siestas, Spaniards This is a list, in alphabetical order within categories, of notable people who either:

are or were Spanish citizens during at least one period of their life,
were born in Spain

only make third place in the study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (in French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques; OCDE) is an international organisation of thirty countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market .

The Japanese sleep the least. But then they spend so much time getting to work on long commutes and so long in the office there's barely time for them to get 40 winks.

Figures were not available for Britain's sleeping and eating habits..

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	May 5, 2009
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