Health News
Sleep and Weight Gain
May 24, 2006
A Cleveland-based research group has reported that women who fail to get enough sleep each night are at risk for gaining weight. The long-term study focused on women who slept 5 hours or less each night. The study found that 32 percent of these women were more likely top gain a significant amount of weight than those women who slept 7 hours each night.
It's possible that sleeping less may affect changes in a person's basal metabolic rate -- the number of calories burned when at rest -- which may account for the weight gain associated with sleep depravation.