Sleep More Important Than Diet For Weight Control

Medical News ^ | 24 May 2006

[little jeremiah]

Note this! I just need more sleep!

[Aggie Mama]

I've been sleep deprived for the past 9 yrs (since my youngest was born). I'm only now starting to sleep 8 hrs (if I'm lucky and no kiddos wake me up). It's kind of hard to want to do anything when you've been up with a crying baby all night long.

[HungarianGypsy]

Then why is my husband who gets much less sleep, almost the same size as he was in high school?

[Puppage]

Sleep More Important Than Diet For Weight Control

Then, why is my cat fat? He gets a solid 18 hours of shut eye a night.

[GSWarrior]

after monitoring nearly 70,000 women for over a decade and-a-half.

I hear these are round figures!

[HIDEK6]

Then why is my husband who gets much less sleep, almost the same size as he was in high school?

Because God is a man.

[Alouette]

Ambien is a diet pill! Who knew?

[HungarianGypsy]

I believe you. Especially since a majority of my weight gain can be attributed to childbearing. Although, I think size 3 is way too skeeny. LOL!

[nickcarraway]

My friend told me ambien makes people eat weird things. One guy ate buttered cigarettes and didn't remember the next day.

[Moonman62]

Then, why is my cat fat? He gets a solid 18 hours of shut eye a night.

For a cat, 18 hours is sleep deprivation.

[marmar]

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[steve86]

Then, why is my cat fat? He gets a solid 18 hours of shut eye a night.

It is a curvilinear function. It really is.

[Albion Wilde]

Observing the CZ-J rule. Has she been losing sleep lately?

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[Cobra64]

Moral of the story, "Sleep more, eat less."

[xenophiles]

This appears to be an uncontrolled study. The researchers observe a correlation between A and B and conclude that B causes A. They don't seem to consider the possibility that being overweight causes people to lose sleep, or that the same social/genetic/whatever factors that cause weight gain also prevent people from sleeping as well.

Not only do they not bother to do a controlled study, they don't even investigate the obvious question: when and how do the thin people who eat and sleep a lot burn all of the calories? Vague speculation about "fidgeting" is worthless-- measure their resting metabolic rates! Look at exercise patterns! Is it possible that regular exercise helps people to sleep better at night?

This doesn't look like valuable research to me.

[Cobra64]

How can I eat if I'm asleep?

[Tax-chick]

say researchers from Care Western University, Ohio, USA,

Wouldn't this be "Case Western Reserve University"?

[Albion Wilde]

Fat B*****d: "Get in mah belly!"

[Cobra64]

My informal study indicates that fat people drink Diet Coke. Has anyone ever seen a fat person dring Coke Classic?