Sleeping more could help you lose weight

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Increasing the amount you sleep could help you lose weight and prevent obesity, according to international researchers. The team recruited 80 participants who were classified as overweight and slept less than 6.5 hours a night. Half the group were provided a sleep hygiene counselling session, which the researchers say increased their sleep by about 1.2 hours each night on average. Compared to the other participants who continued their usual routine, the researchers say the sleep counselling group began eating fewer calories a day. The researchers say this means increased sleep could assist in losing weight by encouraging less energy intake via food.

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conference: JAMA Internal Medicine

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Organisation/s: The University of Chicago, USA

Funder: This study was funded by grants R01DK100426, CTSA-UL1 TR0002389, and UL1TR002389 from the National Institutes of Health and by the Diabetes Research and Training Center at The University of Chicago.

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