Sleep Less, Eat More?

Ant writes "A study, published Monday, found that people who sleep less tend to be fat, and experts said it's time to find if more sleep will fight obesity. Monday's study from Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk covered 1,000 people and found that total sleep time decreased as body mass index -- a measure of weight based on height -- increased. Men slept an average of 27 minutes less than women and overweight and obese patients slept less than patients with normal weights, it said. In general the fatter subjects slept about 1.8 hours a week less than those with normal weights."

Comments

the data implies a conclusion that may not be true

[olibri]

You cannot conclude that more sleep makes you thinner until you actually do that experiment. This only shows a relationship between the two. Maybe there's a "sleepy-thin" gene in there somewhere that we need to activate on the fat people. Personally, I'm a "sleepy-thin" guy. I have to sleep a lot, and I'm really thin. I'd trade needing a little less sleep for being a little fatter.