If you manage to get a good night's sleep on a regular basis your chances of staying slim or becoming slimmer are significantly higher, say researchers from Care Western University, Ohio, USA, after monitoring nearly 70,000 women for over a decade and-a-half. This is the largest study ever to examine the effects of sleep on weight over the long-term.
What constitutes a good night's sleep? For this study, the researchers observed the effect sleeping five or fewer hours regularly has on a woman's weight over the medium and long term. They compared them to women who managed to regularly get 7 hours' sleep each night.
Women who don't get much sleep, up to five hours each night, are much more likely to have put on 33lbs over a 16 year period - 30% more likely when compared to the women who managed to get 7 hours sleep each night. Light sleepers also have a significantly higher risk of becoming obese.
So this is pretty interesting. I dont get alot of sleep but I also dont need to lose weight :) It seems logical to me though. In addition to eating healthy and exercise, adequate sleep is needed to be healthy.
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I have always loved sleeping :)
I heard about this study too. It's actually kinda cool! ;)
Yeah. I have also heard about a similar study. It also said that people who stay up later into the evening tend to eat food closer to going to bed (as a form of energy). This is not good for you since it takes up to three hours for a person's stomach to process food. Any food that is still in the stomach when a person goes to bed does not get full digested. As a result, the stomach tries to absorb as many nutrients as quickly as possible by converting food into fat. It is reccommended that people stop eating about 3 hours before they intend to go to sleep.
wow im so glad i read that, now i have a good reason to hit my snooze button so many times!
This means I can lose weight for doing practically nothing. How awesome is that?
--I am nothing special, just the combined efforts of every
person I've ever met and every book I've ever read.
I agree with this blog, especially if you drink ice-cold water constantly throughout the day, everyday.