Sunday, August 28, 2011

Lack of sleep could lead to weight gain


Getting too little sleep can have all kinds of negative consequences, including making you cranky and impairing your driving. A growing body of evidence suggests an addition to that list might be in order: Lack of sleep might also make you fat.

The intriguing prospect that sleep duration may play a role in how much we weigh has researchers busily conducting studies to tease out the potential relationship between shut-eye and BMI.

Although it might seem intuitive that under-sleeping leads to overeating, science hasn?t yet found a direct cause-and-effect relationship between lack of sleep and being overweight. ?There is a very, very strong link,? says Jim Hill, director of the Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Colorado and a spokesman for the American Society for Nutrition. ?People with sleep problems tend to have obesity. Why? That?s where the research is.?

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