Lack of Sleep makes you fat!

[TN1]

i dont know where to put these but since this is about health so i put this in health section.

Lazy people should sleep more. But how can a hard working man be an obese person?

A new Japanese research shows that men who sleep less than five hours a night are exposed to turning obese and to having high levels of glucose in the blood, which is the first step towards diabetes.

"Lack of sleep triggers a hormone in the blood which stimulates the appetite (ghrelin, the most powerful appetite stimulant yet discovered). It increases a sense of hunger as well as an appetite for high-calorie food," said lead author, Nihon University medical department associate professor Yoshitaka Kaneita.

The team looked at 21,693 men in 1999 and made a follow up in 2006. Average weight men in 1999 were 1.36 times more likely to turn obese if they slept less than 5 hours a night on average in the subsequent 7 years compared with the category of those who slept more. The likelihood of the short-sleepers to have high blood sugar levels increased by 1.27 times.

There is no similar research made for women. And the recommended daily sleeping time for an adult is 8 hours.

Still, a research made at Northwestern University in 2006 found that children who sleep more will store less body fat than children who sleep less, and that the former are less likely than the latter to be overweight five years later.

Children with more sleep hours presented lower BMI (body mass index) and later in their development they were less likely to be overweight than those who slept less. The results were similar even when putting in the equation factors like BMI, parents’ income and education, race and ethnicity.

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The team found that one more hour of sleep translated in a decrease of children’s risk of being overweight from 36 % to 30 %, while for older children the drop was from 34 % to 30 %.

The National Sleep Foundation recommends that children aged 5 to 12 should sleep 10 to 11 hours per night, while teenagers 8 to 9 hours, but the research encountered situations when, on weeknights, 7-year-olds had less than 10 hours of sleep, while by the age of 14, weekday sleep time dropped to 8.5 hours.

Source: Softpedia

[pic85]

whoa, is this really? in a way, well, i'm only having at least 6 hrs of sleep most of the time and i'm always hungry, craving the junkies!!

[omar]

WOW.. I heard of it too.. But I`m not worried cos I take a very good care of my sleeping... sometimes I sleep more than I need

[Lainee17]

wow this is soo true lack of sleep also loses brain cells o.O
i should sleep more longer haha.
its hard to sleep 9 hours b/c of school and stuff

[muffin-puff]

wait... so this fact is only for men and not for women right? (please tell me it's not for women please tell me it's not for women please please please *crossing fingers*)

[VIERAN]

i should have known it much more elaborated like this, i should not worry either cause im a woman not a men (lol). im just glad i will not fall into this cause i sleep just right i lack of sleeping but not all the times.

[gsun101]

r u serious!

[the9tail_demon]

oh man!! I must go to bedroom now

[scarletangel21]

Wow! Really! So how come I sleep more than I should but I seem to want to eat more and I do gain weight....or maybe it's really just me lol!

[crissiegirl]

i dunno but i know that if you sleep longer you will lost some weight(it does with me:S)
weird but yeah, but y'all know already you need enough sleep duhh"P not only for loosing weight but to refule ur brain youknow