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Snooze to Lose Pounds
Author: Kim Beardsmore  | Posted: 21-09-2005 | Comments: 0 | Views: 123 | Rating: (50)  (?) 
If you want to find a way to lose weight faster, and you think
there is nothing new under the sun, then what I'm about to tell
you will really make you nod off.
According to Dr Kenneth Goodrick at Baylor, a good night's sleep
is a vital ingredient for weight loss.
He believes that lack of sleep robs people of the energy they
need to exercise and sets up a vicious low-energy cycle that
sabotages your weight loss programme. Often when energy reserves
are low, people turn to high-fat and high-sugar laden foods or
caffeinated drinks for energy pick-me-ups...all of which interfere
with weight loss efforts. Some may drink 10 to 15 caffeinated
beverages a day, which has a adverse effect on sleep quality.
It's a double whammy.
This is not the only fascinating connection between sleep and
weight gain. Researchers have found there are two hormones
involved. Leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite, and
grehlin, which increases food intake and is thought to play a
role in long-term regulation of body weight. Sleep deprivation
lowers the levels of leptin and raises levels of grehlin. This
is thought to be the reason why obese people suffering with
sleep apnea often put on weight faster than others.
Goodrick says, "Sleep is a time for the brain, the body, and all
the hormones to get regulated and restore themselves to the
baseline values for the next day. If you have caffeine, or
inadequate sleep, you don't have a chance for all of those
restorative processes to get finished. So you're ending not
quite fit, or metabolically where you should be".
What is a good night's sleep? Participants in a US study who got
less than 4 hours of sleep each night were 73 percent more
likely to be obese than those who sleep between 7 and 9 hours a
night, the recommended amount. Those who slept only 5 hours each
night were 50 percent more likely to be overweight, and those
who slept 6 hours a night were 23 percent more likely to be
overweight.
It's official, for good health we all need to wake up and get a
good night's sleep.
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operates across 60 countries. Tons of recipes, articles,
resources, free newsletter and more to help you lose weight and
keep it off forever. Estimate your healthy body weight, register
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