{"id":3684,"date":"2010-10-04T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:47","slug":"study-finds-deep-ties-between-sleep-and-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/10\/04\/study-finds-deep-ties-between-sleep-and-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds Deep Ties Between Sleep and Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good night&#8217;s sleep might be a key to losing weight. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/content\/153\/7\/435.abstract\">a crossover study<\/a> among 10 overweight people, Arlet Nedeltcheva and colleagues compared the effects of 2 weeks of dieting with 8.5 or 5.5 hours of sleep each night. They found that during the sleep curtailment period, weight loss came more from lean body mass, fat oxidation was reduced, and hunger levels and circulating gherlin levels were higher.<\/p>\n<p>In<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/content\/153\/7\/475.extract\"> an accompanying editorial<\/a> in the <em>Annals of Internal Medicine<\/em>, Shahrad Taheri and Emmanuel Mignot write that the study provides &#8220;insight on why sleep deprivation interferes with the achievement and maintenance of healthy weight&#8221; and agree with the authors that &#8220;adequate sleep might be an important factor in successful weight loss, and perhaps sleep should be included as part of the lifestyle package that traditionally has focused on diet and exercise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good night&#8217;s sleep might be a key to losing weight. In a crossover study among 10 overweight people, Arlet Nedeltcheva and colleagues compared the effects of 2 weeks of dieting with 8.5 or 5.5 hours of sleep each night. They found that during the sleep curtailment period, weight loss came more from lean body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[297,458,284,457],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-diet","tag-gherlin","tag-obesity","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}