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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