Lack of sleep makes children more prone to obesity

A study by experts at the University of Temple's Center for Obesity and Education (CORE), USA, revealed an interesting relationship between sleep time per night and body weight and total body weight. eat that children consume.

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The research team conducted tests on 37 babies aged 8 - 11. Nearly one third of them were overweight at the time of the study. The test lasts for three weeks. The stages are divided as follows: The first week for babies to sleep normally, the second week gives them more sleep than usual and the third week makes them sleep less than usual.

During the second week, when babies sleep the most, researchers receive a hormone that regulates hunger called leptin at a lower level. On average, their bodies are 0.2kg lighter and consume about 134 calories less per day.

Chantelle Hart, an Associate Professor of Public Health at CORE, said: "The findings from this study show that increasing sleep at school-age children is important for work. Prevention and treatment of obesity The potential role of sleep should be explored further. "