Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Health News: Trying to Lose Weight? Less Sleep = Less Success.

Picked this one up (directly) from the Endocrine Daily Briefing- a daily newsletter I get from the Endocrine Society.

The Los Angeles Times (10/4, Khan) "Booster Shots" blog reported, "For dieters who had a full night's worth" of sleep, "more than half of the weight they lost was fat." However, "when the researchers cut three hours off their bedtime, only a quarter of the weight the study participants lost was fat. That means the other 75% being burned was nonfat mass – such as protein, valuable building blocks of muscle and other body tissues," the blog entry explained.

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