Sunday, March 25, 2012

Why Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Overeating

If traditional weight-loss diets have failed you, you might just try hitting the sack.

Growing evidence has linked healthy weight with getting adequate sleep, and in a new report presented at the American Heart Association’s annual Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism conference, researchers found that sleep deprivation is associated with overeating. In the study, people who were sleep deprived ate more than 500 additional calories daily.

That’s a lot of calories. It doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out that over time, the excess consumption can translate into unwanted pounds — though the current study was small and short-term and did not measure participants’ long-term changes in weight.



Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/15/why-sleep-deprivation-may-lead-to-overeating/?iid=hl-main-feature#ixzz1pxPzkKRj

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