Someone just recommend this book: "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival" by T. S. Wiley
The lightbulb put us out of sync with nature. Way back when, people spent the summer sleeping less and eating heavily in preparation for winter because light triggers the hunger for carbohydrates. Now, with light available 24 hours a day, we gulp down food all year long.
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> From: tamaratornado <tamaratornado@...>
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 9:43:51 AM
> Subject: [fast5] Sleep more, lose weight, says study
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> Sleep more, lose weight, says study
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> Are you trying your best to eat right and exercise, but still not losing weight?
> One study suggests that lack of sleep could throw off a diet.
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> Research from the University of Chicago showed that dieters who slept for 8.5
> hours lost 55 percent more body fat than dieters who slept 5.5 hours.
>
> "Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary
> interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction," the study
> authors concluded in an article released Monday in the Annals of Internal
> Medicine, a journal of the American College of Physicians.
>
> Not having enough sleep could affect a hormone called ghrelin, known to affect
> appetite and weight. An increase in this hormone level has been shown to make
> people hungrier and cause higher fat retention.
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> The dieters who slept less reported feeling hungrier throughout the course of
> the study.
>
> http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/04/sleep-more-lose-weight-says-study/
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