Less Sleep Equals Heavier Kids
Well, here's another excellent reason to get your children to sleep early: More sleep may lower their risk of becoming fat. Researchers have found that every additional hour per night a third-grader spends sleeping reduces the child's chances of being obese in sixth grade by 40% . If there was a magic number for the third-graders, it was nine hours, 45 minutes of sleep. Sleeping more than that lowered the risk significantly. This is yet another reason to enforce bedtime. In experiments by Van Cauter and others, sleep-deprived adults produced more ghrelin, a hormone that promotes hunger, and less leptin, a hormone that signals fullness.
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Weight loss blog post by Yes Weight Loss at 8:27 PM
