New research has identified a possible way of shedding calories without closely monitoring diets or doing more exercise – simply by spending a little more time in bed, in fact.
In an experiment with 80 overweight adults who usually slept fewer than 6.5 hours a night, adding an average of 1.2 hours of extra shut-eye per night saw a reduction in overall caloric intake by an average of 270 calories a day.
"Over the years, we and others have shown that sleep restriction has an effect on appetite regulation that leads to increased food intake, and thus puts you at risk for weight gain over time,""More recently, the question that everyone was asking was, 'Well, if this is what happens with sleep loss, can we extend sleep and reverse some of these adverse outcomes?'"If this reduction in caloric intake was maintained over three years, it would result in a weight loss of...
The volunteers used a urine test to track their caloric intake, currently considered the gold standard for measuring daily energy expenditure outside of the lab. It involves drinking water in which the hydrogen and oxygen atoms are replaced with other natural isotopes that are easy to trace. Another notable part of the research was how quickly the group adjusted their sleep schedules – after just a single counseling and advice session led by the research team, overall sleep duration was increased.
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