More Sleeping Is One Of The Best Ways To Prevent Obesity
We know that we can’t possibly lose our weight while sleeping, but do you know one of the best ways to prevent obesity is by sleeping more or change our sleeping patterns?
More than half of Americans are obese. This is a fact. Last year, the number is still at around sixty to sixty five percent. Even if that figure is incorrect, an obesity rate of forty percent of the population is already a real problem. We are well known as a country of fast foods which means fatty and oily calorie rich foods. Another culprit is that our daily jobs don’t usually require any movement at all. You just sit down usually and type on the computer for the whole day. But one of the newest studies have shown something surprising. Stanford University seems have found out that not having enough sleep can actually help one gain more weight.
Columbia University had also researched and discovered that the sleeping patterns and the weight of more than sixty thousand test subjects were connected to each other. People who did not get enough sleep (usually just up to four hours or less a night) had a whooping seventy three percent chances of obesity while those who slept five or a little more than five hours had a fifty percent chances at obesity. Finally, those who slept six hours were twenty three percent likely to get fat while the last group, those who slept for around ten hours had a low eleven percent chances.
So why is there a connection between sleeping and gaining weight? Studies have shown that getting less than eight hours of sleep makes your body store more ghrelin. These are the hormones responsible for our hunger cravings. It also lowers leptin, which is the hormones that tells our bodies that we are full. This persistent craving will eventually lead to fattening.
Therefore, this really draws a lot of connections between why college freshmen gain weight, why new mothers find it hard to lose weight, and why those in the night shift also gain weight. All of them have bad sleeping patterns.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, more than sixty percent of U.S. Americans have less than eight hours of sleep. This number is surprising because it is the same number as the number of obese Americans. People try to catch up on sleep in the weekend but unfortunately, this doesn’t work to balance the right ghrelin and leptin in the body.
