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The Importance of Sleep for
Weight Control:
Understanding the Affects
of Sleep Deprivation and Maintaining a Healthy Weight Level
Chronic sleep deprivation
is affecting more and more people across the planet. So many people
associate lacking sleep with remaining active and therefore losing weight.
This is an erroneous association – and dangerous. In fact, getting less than
the recommended amount of sleep (roughly 8 hours) per day can lead to:
Especially in the last 20 years, the United States and other westernized
nations have seen very sharp rises in obesity rates. This of course greatly
increases all instances of mortality and morbidity as well. Therefore it
constitutes a very serious public health concern. All known preventable
diseases are heavily correlated with obesity and stress. Poor eating habits,
lacking physical activity and decreased hours of rest are all associated
with developing obesity. When coupled with record high stress levels, the
risks for the development and onset of disease are also greatly increased.
Health researchers across the planet are discovering that those who sleep
the least often way the most. In fact, one study from the National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey involving 18,000 adults, suggests that
those who sleep 4 hours or less nightly on a regular basis are 73% more
likely to develop obesity than those people who receive proper amounts of
breasts.
The prevalent theory concerning sleep deprivation and weight management:
Although there is no universally accepted theory, the most prevalent
hypothesis linking sleep deprivation to ineffective weight management and
the development of obesity concerns two hormones: leptin and ghrelin. Leptin
is produced within the fat cells and signals the brain to know when to stop
eating. Ghrelin is manufactured in the stomach and tells the brain that it
is hungry. Amongst those who regularly get less than enough rest, leptin
levels are lowered and ghrelin levels are increased.
The bottom line:
Human bodies, and the bodies of all organisms, need sufficient rest periods.
Sure, it’s OK to lose a bit of sleep here and there, but the effects of
sleep loss are cumulative. Over time, sleep deprivation is detrimental in
many ways. Most people who are concerned with effective weight management
are also concerned with their health in general. Human health can often be
effectively predicted by utilizing logic. And it’s very logical that a body
needs to rest regularly. Our resting periods are those times when our body
is able to shut down certain systems and replenish its nutrient levels,
digest our foods, eliminate toxins and otherwise rejuvenate.
Effective weight management has a whole lot to do with living a
holistically-healthy lifestyle. That includes eating nutrient packed foods,
drinking lots of fresh water, getting daily physical exercise, maintaining a
positive attitude and implementing an effective stress management program
that includes regular bouts of sound sleep. Sleep deprivation is not only
ineffective as a means for weight management; it is an overall detrimental
condition that needs to be avoided at all costs.
Sleep tight!
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