Eating Too Much Food Caused By Not Enough Sleep
Yet another reason to get the sleep you need.
A new study suggests that those who are suffering from not enough sleep are also prone to eating too much food.
When you're overtired, and hungry, you're not going to make the wisest, most healthy food choices.
Sleep is essential for the healthy functioning of all systems of the body, but science has yet to understand it fully.
We do know sleep needs change over our lifetime, and problems become an issue for many people at some point in their lives.
Maybe you have trouble falling off, or you've yet to be diagnosed with a sleep disorder like sleep apnea, night terrors, narcolepsy or sleep paralysis...
whatever the reason, sleep problems should not be ignored.
The good news is that treatment of sleep issues is getting better all the time.
To understand the role between sleep and eating, the researchers evaluated 13 men and the same number of women in a controlled setting for six days over two different occasions.
For the first visit, the subjects spent 9 hours each day in bed, as opposed to the next visit when they were given only four hours to spend in bed.
For four of the days the subjects were given the same diet, on day five they ate anything they wanted.
On this day, the subjects ate about 300 extra calories, mostly from saturated fat, when they felt sleepy as opposed to when they felt well rested.
The female subjects were most vulnerable to eating too much when they were overtired.
They ate 328.
6 added calories, as opposed to tired men who ate 262.
7 additional calories.
The female subjects were more likely to select fat laden foods, but men selected the same levels of fat whether tired or not.
A natural question...
with all that extra time (5 more hours not sleeping), didn't people just use those hours to get an extra meal in? The researchers doesn't think this is the reason, since only 7 of the 26 participants ate after they'd gone to bed.
More of the subjects took in the calories during the time they were awake.
These findings might be the explanation for the link between the duration of sleep and obesity.
If these choices are made over the long haul, it will be easier for you to pack on the pounds, while also raising your risks of heart disease.
Obesity comes from regularly taking in more calories than you burn off, because the body stores any unused calories as fat.
This added weight puts stress on every part of your body, as well as being a significant threat to your health.
We know too, that a healthy, balanced diet along with enough regular exercise are both important to getting your weight under control.
Forget all the programs and quick fixes to overcome eating too much food, when it comes to lasting, healthy weight loss it's down to burning more calories than you take in.
Now it appears that not enough sleep plays a role and while there's no magic number for the right amount of sleep, seven to eight hours a night is a good place to start.
A new study suggests that those who are suffering from not enough sleep are also prone to eating too much food.
When you're overtired, and hungry, you're not going to make the wisest, most healthy food choices.
Sleep is essential for the healthy functioning of all systems of the body, but science has yet to understand it fully.
We do know sleep needs change over our lifetime, and problems become an issue for many people at some point in their lives.
Maybe you have trouble falling off, or you've yet to be diagnosed with a sleep disorder like sleep apnea, night terrors, narcolepsy or sleep paralysis...
whatever the reason, sleep problems should not be ignored.
The good news is that treatment of sleep issues is getting better all the time.
To understand the role between sleep and eating, the researchers evaluated 13 men and the same number of women in a controlled setting for six days over two different occasions.
For the first visit, the subjects spent 9 hours each day in bed, as opposed to the next visit when they were given only four hours to spend in bed.
For four of the days the subjects were given the same diet, on day five they ate anything they wanted.
On this day, the subjects ate about 300 extra calories, mostly from saturated fat, when they felt sleepy as opposed to when they felt well rested.
The female subjects were most vulnerable to eating too much when they were overtired.
They ate 328.
6 added calories, as opposed to tired men who ate 262.
7 additional calories.
The female subjects were more likely to select fat laden foods, but men selected the same levels of fat whether tired or not.
A natural question...
with all that extra time (5 more hours not sleeping), didn't people just use those hours to get an extra meal in? The researchers doesn't think this is the reason, since only 7 of the 26 participants ate after they'd gone to bed.
More of the subjects took in the calories during the time they were awake.
These findings might be the explanation for the link between the duration of sleep and obesity.
If these choices are made over the long haul, it will be easier for you to pack on the pounds, while also raising your risks of heart disease.
Obesity comes from regularly taking in more calories than you burn off, because the body stores any unused calories as fat.
This added weight puts stress on every part of your body, as well as being a significant threat to your health.
We know too, that a healthy, balanced diet along with enough regular exercise are both important to getting your weight under control.
Forget all the programs and quick fixes to overcome eating too much food, when it comes to lasting, healthy weight loss it's down to burning more calories than you take in.
Now it appears that not enough sleep plays a role and while there's no magic number for the right amount of sleep, seven to eight hours a night is a good place to start.
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