Article: Sleep more, weigh less? The latest research suggests that you need seven to nine hours of sleep a night to lose weight and keep it off. Sari Botton investigates.(Diet News)

Melissa Miller was never a great sleeper. Most of her life, the 41-year-old marketing director managed with just a few hours of shut-eye each night. But after 9/11, things got worse and she noticed an unfortunate change:", "I started putting on weight." Twenty-five pounds, to be exact. "I didn't have the energy to exercise, and I was eating more carbs. I was carving them." She finally sought help from New York City nutritionist Ox Garcia, Ph.D. "The first thing he did," she remembers, "was stabilize my sleep."

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How is this possible? Shouldn't more waking hours equal more calories burned? Actually, no. "Sleep is a very dynamic ...

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