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Latest Research Showed The Importance Of Sleep To Weight Loss
Written by John Smith on Jun.17th 2020
an over 16-year study presented in American Thoracic Society International Conference that women who slept 5 hours per day were 32% more likely to experience major weight gain compared to those who slept 7 hours a night.
A study that tracked near 70,000 middle-aged women over 16 years has recently presented at American Thoracic Society International Conference. It is the largest study to track the effects of sleep habits on weight loss.

The study concluded that women who slept five hours per night were 32% more likely to experience major weight gain of 33 pounds in average, and 15% more likely to become obese, compared to those who slept at least seven hours per night.

Those 70,000 middle-aged women were first monitored in 1986, and the research tracked their weight every 2 years for 16 years. At the start of the study, for those who slept five hours or less per night weighed an average of 5.4 pounds more than those sleeping 7 hours. Those women also gained 1.6 pounds more in average in next 10 years. That is 16 pounds in 10 years, and 32 pounds in 20 years.

"A small change in weight can increase a person's risk of other health problems like hypertension and diabetes," says lead researcher Sanjay Patel, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. "The amount presented was an average amount, some women gained much more than that."

Women Who Eat Less But Sleep Less Still Gain

The researchers did a deep dive in the exercise habits for those 70,000 middle-aged women to find out if there was any differences in physical activity that could explain the growth of weight. However, there was no observed pattern that can explain the weight gain was due to lack of physical activity.

There was an interesting finding that women who were getting less sleep also eating less.

"Prior studies have shown that after just a few days of sleep restriction, the hormones that control appetite cause people to become hungrier, so we thought that women who slept less might eat more," Patel says. "But, in fact, they ate less. That suggests that appetite and diet are not accounting for the weight gain in women who sleep less."

The Reasons About Weight Gain

In this study, no specific factors that contribute to weight gain who had less sleep has been identified. Further study will be required to identify the root cause for this findings.

"Sleeping less may decrease person's basal metabolic rate that results in less effective in burning calories at rest." Patel says. "We also suspected that sleeping less may lead to lesser non-exercise associated thermogenesis, and therefore burn up fewer calories."
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