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Lose Weight, Sleep Tight

Posted on May 27, 2008

My trusty industry journal, Sleep, just published another study confirming what we've known for some time: waist size affects sleep quality. The bigger you are, the bigger your chances are of not getting a restful night's sleep.An overview of the study was recently posted on WebMD, and it points out that short sleepers - people who get fewer hours of sleep that others in their age group - are more likely to be obese. This is true for both adults and children. For adults, a short sleeper is defined as someone who five hours or less of sleep. For kids, it's less than 10 hours.Many researchers ...

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