Sleep Effects on your Weight !
If you’re looking for a fairly painless way to lose weight (or at
least not gain) researchers at Brigham Young University have a new
solution for you: Put yourself on a regular sleep schedule.
People who maintain an unvarying sleep routine have a lower percentage of body fat than those who keep irregular sleep hours, says a new study, published in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Led by Bruce Bailey, professor of exercise science at Brigham Young, researchers followed 300 female college students, ages 19 to 26, who were given activity trackers to monitor their movements and activities, including waking and sleeping times. The study participants were assessed for body composition before and after the one-week study period.
What the researchers found:
People who maintain an unvarying sleep routine have a lower percentage of body fat than those who keep irregular sleep hours, says a new study, published in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
Led by Bruce Bailey, professor of exercise science at Brigham Young, researchers followed 300 female college students, ages 19 to 26, who were given activity trackers to monitor their movements and activities, including waking and sleeping times. The study participants were assessed for body composition before and after the one-week study period.
What the researchers found:
- Getting less than 6.5 hours of sleep and more than 8.5 hours of sleep was linked to higher body fat
- High quality sleep was associated with lower body fat while poor sleep correlated with higher body fat
- Waking and going to sleep at the same time every day (particularly a consistent wake time) was most strongly linked with lower body fat
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