Missing Just Half An Hour Of Sleep On A Weekday May Change Metabolism.

website reports that a study presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting “suggests that people who lose as little as half an hour of sleep on a weekday have change in their metabolism that might help them gain weight and that might even put them on the road to diabetes.” The study of “522 patients who had just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes” revealed that people “who got a half hour less than the recommended eight hours a night were more likely to be obese and also had what’s known as insulin resistance – a malfunctioning of metabolism that can lead to diabetes.” after just one “year, for every 30 minutes of weekday sleep debt at baseline, the risk of obesity and insulin resistance – an indicator of diabetes – was increased by 17 percent and 39 percent, respectively, the study found.” Another recent “Mayo Clinic study...found that women who slept less than six hours or more than nine hours per night were more likely to gain 11 pounds than women who slept seven hours per night, while researchers at the Harvard-affiliated General Hospital for Children determined that, of the 1,000 children they tracked from the age of six months to seven years old, those who were the most sleep-deprived were about 2 1/2 times as likely to be obese as the children who consistently got enough sleep.” http://www.today.com/health/can-snooze-button-keep-weight-2D80532932