Weight Gain and Lack of Sleep

When your grandma used to tell you to get a good night’s sleep, what she really meant was that you needed to give your body a chance to recoup from the day’s wear and tear. Sleep is the time when the body shuts down for repair and maintenance. Depriving your body of sufficient time to carry out these tasks leads to problems like stress, fatigue, poor health and weight gain.

Your body produces certain hormones that keep your weight under control. Lack of sleep can lead the body to produce high quantities of Grehlin, which is a hormone that increases the appetite. On the other hand, it also leads to the decrease in the production of Leptin, which is an appetite suppressant. Together, these imbalances lead to rapid weight gain.

According to experts, every person has a unique requirement when it comes to the number of hours of sleep. Even so, men and women generally require 6-8 hours of sound sleep every night.

Studies have found that people who sleep for 5 hours or less are 32% more likely to be overweight and 15% more likely to develop obesity. Reports suggest that school going children in many developed countries are unable to get enough sleep, which directly translates to stress, stressful eating and weight gain. Lack of sleep in these early years puts such children on a trajectory heading towards rapid weight gain, obesity and metabolic problems. Obesity, as medical research points out, is directly related to metabolic disorders that ultimately lead to cardiovascular problems.

Researchers have found a strong link between sleep disorders like sleep apnea and weight gain. People suffering from sleep disorders do not get a chance to enter into the restorative phase of deep sleep. Such people run the real risk of weight gain, stroke and heart diseases.

So, if you desire to control weight gain, you must follow your sleep patterns very closely and ensure that your body and mind are getting sufficient rest.

In short, it is not enough to control your food intake and exercise like crazy. If you want to lose weight, shut down for a good night of deep sleep.

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