Obesity. Sleeping Too Much or Too Little Could Make You Weigh Too Much, as Well. One Recent Study Showed That People Who Slept for Nine or 10 Hours Every Night...
Obesity. Sleeping too much or too little could make you weigh too much, as well. One recent study showed that people who slept for nine or 10 hours every night were 21% more likely to become obese over a six-year period than were people who slept between seven and eight hours.
Does sleeping a lot make you lose weight?
Sleeping 1 Extra Hour Linked to Eating 270 Fewer Daily Calories, Study Shows. The data adds to a growing volume of evidence suggesting sleep plays an important role in weight management. Experts say sleep could be a 'game changer' for weight loss efforts.
Here's why that's bad: When your body doesn't respond properly to insulin, your body has trouble processing fats from your bloodstream, so it ends up storing them as fat. So it's not so much that if you sleep, you'll lose weight, but that too little sleep hampers your metabolism and contributes to weight gain.
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