Sleep Off Obesity

There is mounting evidence that lack of adequate sleep is associated with obesity and possibly other physical ailments.

Children: Study Ties Too Little Sleep With Too Much Weight

New York Times, By NICHOLAS BAKALAR,Published: January 1, 2008

A study of 7-year-olds has found that sleeping less than nine hours a night was associated with being overweight or obese, even after accounting for amounts of television watching and physical exercise.

Stuart Goldenberg

The study, being published Tuesday in the journal Sleep, also found that short sleep duration was associated with mood swings. The researchers had followed the subjects — 519 children in New Zealand — since birth, making periodic health and developmental assessments and interviewing their parents. More...