Recently a number of studies have shown a link between sleep deprivation and obesity in infants, teens and adults. Now a new study has found that there is an increased intake in calories for persons of average weight when they do not get a full night’s sleep. And those calories are not healthy ones, as they tend to be from items containing saturated fat.
This new study, out of Columbia University, found that women ate an average of 329 additional calories when they don’t get a proper rest, while men ate an average of 263 more calories than their rested counterparts. At 3,500 calories per pound, that could equate to 2.57 additional pounds per month (and 30.8 pounds in a year), if sleep deprivation were to persist.
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