Saturday 21 January 2017

The link between sleep and weight gain



Everyone love to sleep silently and we all need to get a good night's sleep. Sleep well make us to feel refreshed, energized, and ready to conquer the world. But when don't get enough sleep, we feel fatigued, sluggish, and irritable. Sleep deprived daytime sleepiness and effect our job.

Adults should get between seven and nine hours of sleep each night. Yet, we sleep less than that. Adequate sleep restores us physically, mentally, and emotionally. In a nutshell, sleep is essential to our short and long term health. Okay that is huge benefits of sleep. What we would like to focus is that research shows that sufficient sleep plays an important role in weight management and decreasing the risk of metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance and diabetes as well other sleep-related problems.

Sleepiness is regulated by the physiological need for sleep, yes we do need sleep, our body to get sleep also combined with the body's circadian rhythm (also known as the biological clock). Many factor can cause a shift in normal circadian patterns include sleep patterns (eg, sleeping during daylight hours), light, exercise, meal times, temperature, and exogeneous melatonin. Okay, the circadian disruptions, can lead to various hormonal and metabolic changes that result in obesity, diabetes, and even decrease life expectancy.

Some studies have shown a relationship between short sleep and weight gain. Research also has found that higher BMI is strongly linked to short sleep in children. Besides, sleep quantity and quality have been shown to play role in regulating the hormone ghrelin, known as hunger hormone that controls appetite.

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