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'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat

Posted by timothy on from the it-certainly-is-making-me-dopey dept.

sciencehabit writes "A new study suggests that, by disrupting your body's normal rhythms, your alarm clock could be making you overweight. The study concerns a phenomenon called 'social jetlag.' That's the extent to which our natural sleep patterns are out of synch with our school or work schedules. When we wake up earlier than we're supposed to — or spend all weekend sleeping in and then get up at 6 am on Monday — it makes our body feel like it's spending the weekend in one time zone and the week in another. For people who are already on the heavy side, greater social jet lag corresponds to greater body weight."

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  1. Congratulations by redrew89 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I created an account just to tell you how ignorant you are. Verdict: Extremely Ignorant.

    1. Re:Congratulations by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I used my regular old account to tell you not to feed the trolls. It annoys the pig and we need the eggs. Wait, what?

    2. Re:Congratulations by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't feed the fucking idiot? Is that better?

    3. Re:Congratulations by user+flynn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      All I could picture (when reading the OP) was Dave Chappelle's Clayton Bigby. You know, the black white supremacist.

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    4. Re:Congratulations by kdemetter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I created an account just to tell you how ignorant you are.

      Verdict: Extremely Ignorant.

      I wish there was a +1 , Redundant .

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