I have just read this on The Good Housekeeping Health Site:
Add one hour of sleep to your schedule, and you could drop up to 14 pounds this year. New data from the University of Michigan shows that you'll likely eat 6 percent less if you replace 60 minutes of awake time (when you may snack) with an hour of shut-eye. And a Harvard study that tracked around 68,000 women found that those who clocked only five or fewer hours of rest a night had a 32 percent greater chance of gaining more than 30 pounds over a 16-year period than those who got seven hours of sleep.
I already knew that there was a link between obesity and sleep hours but didn't know the figures. Yet another good reason to end insomnia as soon as possible.
See tomorrows post for an action plan to beat insomnia.
