HEALTH: According to research, your lack of sleep is causing you to gain weight, and even losing 15 minutes of sleep a night can lead to you packing on the pounds! Here's what you should know.
HEALTH: According to research, your lack of sleep is causing you to gain weight, and even losing 15 minutes of sleep a night can lead to you packing on the pounds! Here's what you should know.
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Mar 1, 2021
Even small lifestyle habits can make a huge impact on your waistline.
According to a research (published in JAMA Internal Medicine), after examining the sleeping pattern of 120,000 people researchers concluded that our sleeping pattern can be closely associated with weight management and overall health. At the end of the study, it was found that people with body mass indexes (BMIs) above 30 (which is categorized as obese) only slept about 15 minutes less on average than those with lower BMIs.
When you are tired, your hunger hormones called ghrelin spikes and your fullness hormone leptin decreases. This makes you more hungry and you tend to eat more, leading to weight gain.
HEALTH: According to research, your lack of sleep is causing you to gain weight, and even losing 15 minutes of sleep a night can lead to you packing on the pounds! Here's what you should know.
HEALTH: According to research, your lack of sleep is causing you to gain weight, and even losing 15 minutes of sleep a night can lead to you packing on the pounds! Here's what you should know.