Monday, December 13, 2004

Medicine: Obesity, lack of sleep linked

Is it time to nap to suppress your appetite?

In the study, people who habitually slept for only five hours were found to have 15 percent more ghrelin than those who slept for eight hours. They were also found to have 15 percent less leptin, researchers said.
*YAWN*

Posted by Garrett at 1:26 PM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dude, I never even went to med school, but I think I figured out what is going on here. Basically, the people who sleep more aren't awake, eating all the time. I gotta write a diet book.

James.

1:34 AM
Garrett said...

Well yeah, there's that too. But that doesn't affect ghrelin and leptin :0)

10:05 PM
Anonymous said...

Yeah, keep your ghrelin and leptin theory, I'll stick with my sleepin' and eatin' hypothesis.

-Dr. James

7:03 PM

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