Researchers at the University of Colorado Sleep and Chronobiology Laboratory are reporting that lack of sleep for even one workweek leads to overeating and weight gain among people. The researchers conducted a study in which 16 healthy adults were allowed to sleep for just 5 hours per day over a normal workweek. The researchers found that participants gained almost nearly 2 pounds and overate during meals that were invariably delayed. In the second week, the ...
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Sleep loss might be an early warning of Alzheimer's disease according to a recent research at Washington University School of Medicine. Sleep is affected in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The findings of the latest research suggest that sleep problems could as well be markers for the initiation of the disease. Previous experiments on mice have revealed that a link exists between sleep loss and beta amyloid plaques in the brain, which is ...
