{"id":1293,"date":"2010-10-21T01:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-12-22T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T21:30:21","slug":"diet-lifestyle-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2010\/diet-lifestyle-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Diet, Lifestyle and Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1325 alignleft\" title=\"sleeping-beauty\" src=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1216027480_1024x768_sleeping-beauty-285x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1216027480_1024x768_sleeping-beauty-285x178.jpg 285w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1216027480_1024x768_sleeping-beauty-450x281.jpg 450w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/1216027480_1024x768_sleeping-beauty.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">By Nedeltcheva AV et al:<\/span><\/em> \u201cThe barriers to maintaining healthy body weight are complex and include  physiologic, psychological, and social factors\u201d according to an editorial in an <em>Annals <\/em>study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf your goal is to lose fat, skipping sleep is like poking sticks in your bicycle wheels,\u201d Penev said. \u201cCutting back on sleep, a behavior that is ubiquitous in modern society, appears to compromise efforts to lose fat through dieting. In our study it reduced fat loss by 55 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps sleep should be included as part of the lifestyle package that traditionally has focused on diet and exercise&#8230;\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon could connect the rising obesity rates with the decline  in average sleep duration in our society.\u00a0Alternatively, the connection  between sleep loss and weight loss could explain why counting calories  doesn\u2019t always work for some people, or contribute to the observed sleep  difficulties in overweight or obese people. Regardless, it appears that  a full night\u2019s rest should be considered a part of any healthy diet.<\/p>\n<p>Why would losing sleep mean a less efficient diet? The sleep-deprived brain may send different signals to its body; ghrelin levels were again increased in this study, and plasma levels of adrenaline were decreased after the shorter sleep period. The resting metabolic rate was also lower in subjects when they slept less, despite the longer time spent awake. Faced with providing energy for 19 hours of wakefulness instead of 16, the body may resort to breaking down muscle for energy instead of fat, the authors hypothesize &#8211; like burning a log instead of newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ScienceLife\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencelife.uchospitals.edu\/2010\/10\/06\/burn-off-more-fat-with-moresleep\/?msource=MAG10\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><em> From The University of Chicago Medical Center<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nedeltcheva AV et al: \u201cThe barriers to maintaining healthy body weight are complex and include physiologic, psychological, and social factors\u201d according to an editorial in an Annals study. \u201cIf your goal is to lose fat, skipping sleep is like poking sticks in your bicycle wheels,\u201d Penev said. \u201cCutting back on sleep, a behavior that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[57,76,80,235,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}