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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Lack Of Sleep Can Cause Obesity

How many hours of sleep do you get each night? Do you sleep for as long as 11 hours or more? Health experts always advise us to get a good night's sleep, so that the body can recharge and be ready for the next day's activities.

Here's another reasons for you to sleep long and well. Results of a new study now point out a link between obesity and sleep deprivation. The researchers studied more than 1,000 people - from birth till they reached age 32 - to determne their sleep habits and correlate these with their body mass index. Results of the study showed a tendency among participants who spent less hours sleeping at night to be obese, as compared to those who slept for at least 11 hours each night. According to Dr. Robert John Hancox, senior author of the study, they cannot as yet prove that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between these two variables, but the results seem to point a direct link between the two.

So, how about getting more sleep from now on ? This way, you may not need to diet anymore to maitain that slim figure.

Source: Sci-Tech Volume XXII Number 5 ISSN 0116-5704 Sy 2008-2009

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