Want to lose weight from sleeping? Try extending your sleep time so you are not sleep deprived
That's the startling outcome of a randomized trial that asked young, overweight adults who typically slept less than six and a half hours to try to sleep about eight and a half hours a night for two weeks. At the end of that short amount of time, many of those who did extend their sleep to a healthier length decreased their calorie intake by an average of 270 calories a day, according to the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Another way poor sleep impacts our eating choices can be found in the brain's reward centers, the spot that gives us pleasurable feelings we want to repeat."The reward centers in the brain get more activated when you are sleep deprived, which increases your craving for carbohydrates or junk food or a higher overall food intake," Tasali said.Then there's the problem of insulin resistance, which increases with sleep deprivation and leads to weight gain.
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