Diet+Sleep a lot = fat loss

Thursday, September 06, 2012 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

1. Nedeltcheva, AV et al. "Insufficient Sleep Undermines Dietary Efforts to Reduce Adiposity." Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010. Advanced publication.

Weight loss by calorie restriction causes a reduction of both fat and lean mass, which is what the investigators observed. Both groups lost the same amount of weight. However, 80% of the weight was lost as fat in the high-sleep group (2.4/3.0 kg lost as fat), while only 48% of it was lost as fat in the low-sleep group (1.4/2.9 kg lost as fat). Basically, the sleep-deprived group lost as much lean mass as they did fat mass, which is not good!

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.pt/2010/10/big-sleep.html

PS Extra benefit, while i am sleeping i don't eat. I have trouble sleeping a lot but i will make an effort not to nap or drink cofee in the pm hours of the day.

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