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Article: Sleeplessness a Weighty Matter; Sleep-restriction study quickly added pounds to participants.(Report)
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- Consumer Health News (English)
- Article date:
- June 8, 2009
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MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Not getting enough sleep can make you start packing on the pounds almost immediately, a new study has found.
In the study, researchers put 92 healthy men and women aged 22 to 45 through an 11-day, controlled sleep-restriction experiment in a laboratory.
During the first two nights, study participants spent 10 hours a night in bed, followed by five nights of sleep restriction, and finally, four nights of varying recovery. Nine well-rested participants served as controls.
The sleep-deprived participants gained an average 1.31 kilograms (2.9 pounds) by the end of the study period. The well-rested controls gained ...