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Fast Diet Success By Sleeping? It’s True…
Posted by fastdiet on 22 Nov 2010 | Tagged as: Diet Advice
It’s a fact that most women want a successful fast diet… It’s also a fact that most women don’t get enough sleep. Is there a link?
Well, it appears that current research shows that there definitely is a link! Lack of sleep can make you fat… Wow… So does it follow that if you get more sleep you’ll lose weight? It seems so…
It also seems that you’ll look younger and be more healthy too…
Let me explain…
Well over half of adults in the western, industrialised world are overweight. Many of these people are women and many of them aren’t only overweight but are obese. Carrying all this weight makes you look older and is also very unhealthy and is likely to shorten your life…
Research has investigated the amount of sleep people get, their metabolic rate and their weight. It appears that those who get significantly less than 7 hours sleep a night often become obese. Lack of sleep doubles your risk of becoming obese.
People who sleep for less than 4 hours a night are 73 per cent more likely to become overweight. Restricted sleep can lead to food cravings for up to 900 extra calories a day. This much extra food can lead to an alarming weight gain of up to 2lb each week! That’s horrifying…
The research suggested that although those who were studied had no significant weight problems beforehand, their weight grew as they slept for less time each night.
It seems that lack of sleep stimulates the hormones that regulate a person’s appetite and leads to higher levels of ghrelin, a hormone that triggers appetite, and lower levels of leptin, the hormone that tells your body it’s full and doesn’t need to be fed any more.
The problem seems to be likely to get worse as over the past 50 years, the average night’s sleep has dropped from nine to seven hours.
A new survey shows that just 19 per cent of adults enjoy a full eight hours a night, while 16 per cent are getting by on fewer than six.
Over half of us are regularly so weary at work that we long to go home, while 59 per cent of women in their 30s report that they are nearly always tired.
Evidence supports the idea that restricted sleep leads hormones not operating properly and the research team investigating other factors in the connection between lack of sleep and individuals gaining weight.
If you don’t sleep enough, then you’re awake longer (obviously!) so you have more time to over eat. Added to this, if you’re overweight then you’re more likely to suffer from poor sleep patterns with additional problems of snoring, sleep apnoea which are likely to interrupt your night’s sleep.
An informal US experiment involved a group of women being asked not to alter their eating and exercise habits but to sleep for seven-and-a-half hours every night.
Although it seems quite amazing, all the women lost between 3lb and 15lb. As a result of these findings further tests are investigating the impact of sleeping for longer on body weight.
Researchers are trying to look for ways of changing the obesity epidemic and it appears that lack of sleep and increasing weight are true throughout the industrialised world.
So, getting enough sleep can be an important part of your fast diet regime. And it’s effective too. And FREE….
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