Altering Sleep Patterns May Be Associated With Increased Caloric Intake.

Can Too Much Sleep Make You Fat? Going to bed too early may wreak havoc on metabolics. tudy participants with a shortened phase angle associated with dim light melatonin onset -- that is, they went to sleep before the normal time of melatonin release -- ingested an average of 369 calories more compared with others with a longer phase angle (P=0.027), said Kelly Baron, PhD, MPH, of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues. http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APSS/52037