Search Weight Loss Topics:

Home » Lose Weight » To sleep, perchance to diet

IF YOU'RE a poor sleeper, and you can't seem to lose weight, the answer may be more obvious than you think.

While many people who don't get enough shut-eye berate themselves for their lack of control when it comes to food, in fact their insomnia could be to blame for those sneaky grams stacking on, says Dr Carmel Harrington.

Her new book The Sleep Diet: Why sleeping well is the missing link to permanent weight loss, has been getting plenty of airplay in the last week.

Maybe that's because it offers dieters the news they have been waiting for: that stubborn weight gain may not be all your fault.

"There is now conclusive proof of a link between lack of sleep, weight gain and obesity," writes Dr Harrington.

"It is now evident that if you don't take sleep seriously and do not get the sleep you need, you are more likely to put on weight, less likely to lose weight, more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, more prone to depression and more likely to die younger than those people who do get a good night's sleep.

"So, far from being something we do when we have completed all other tasks, sleep should be at the forefront of our consideration as it is absolutely fundamental to our good health."

Part of the problem with not getting enough sleep, it seems, is that it throws our hormones and appetite out of whack.

Dr David Rapoport, associate professor and director of the Sleep Medicine Program at the New York University School of Medicine, says that while doctors have long known that many hormones are affected by sleep, it wasnt until recently that appetite entered the picture.

What brought it into focus, he says, was research on the hormones leptin and ghrelin.

See the rest here:
To sleep, perchance to diet

Your Full Name
Your Email
Your Phone Number
Select your age (30+ only)	30313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120
Select Your US State	Select Your StateAlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahVermontVirginiaWashingtonWashington,DCWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming
Program Choice	Select Your ProgramInjectable HGHInjectable TestoteroneInjectable SermorelinInjectable Weight LossInjectable HCG DietInjectable Vitamins
Confirm over 30 years old	Yes
Confirm that you resident in USA	Yes
This is a Serious Inquiry	Yes
Message:

Home » Lose Weight » To sleep, perchance to diet