Does Sleeping longer or shorter impacts your weight?
Wonderful relationship between hours in sleep and what the scale says: Not getting enough sleep regularly will not only make you tired - it will also increase your weight. The fact is that the people whose sleep is less than five hours a night have about a third to gain weight (30 pounds gain over a period of 16 years) compared to those who close their eyes for seven hours a night. Let us know the connection? Many factors play a part in weight gain. Lack of sleep affects the way our body by making us feel hungry compared to that if we had good sleep. What actually happens is that due to lack of sleep your body boosts hormone ghrelin which in turn stimulates appetite. Ghrelin also decreases a hormone called leptin which makes you feel satisfied. And, chances are, the foods you are craving are not apples or spinach but foods that are high in calories and fat. Lack of sleep also enables you to take more short naps and at every wake up you have more time for eating. Th...