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More sleep means less weight gain, says research
Author: Jonathan Warren
It could be the case that a simple change to sleep hygiene could lead to keeping weight gain at bay, new research has claimed. A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition revealed that people who got very little sleep tended to eat more but didn't burn extra calories.
Marie-Pierre St-Onge, who carried out the research with the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, said: "If you're trying to control your weight, it would be helpful not to be sleep-deprived."
St-Onge recruited 30 men and women between 30 and 49, with all being of normal weight. Living and sleeping in a research centre during two different five-night periods, they were allowed to sleep for nine hours a night in one instance and just four hours in the other.
Regardless of the sleep schedule they were on, people burned around 2,600 calories per day. However, when they were sleep deprived, they fed themselves around 300 calories more on an average day.
