Do you sleep fewer than six hours a night? If so, you might start to worry that you are to be a candidate for obesity. According to a new study, there is a link between the lack or irreguler sleep and big bellies. The study also linked light sleepers with higher smoking rates, less physical activity and more alcohol use.
A Colorado physician from American Academy of Sleep Medicine, Dr.Ron Kramer, said that the short sleepers and also long sleepers are both don’t have good support to the body health.
The survey took about 87,000 adult samplers in the US from 2004 through 2006 which conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Such surveys can’t prove cause-effect relationships, so — for example — it’s not clear if smoking causes sleeplessness or if sleeplessness prompts smoking, said Charlotte Schoenborn, the study’s lead author.
It also did not account for the influence of other factors, such as depression, which can contribute to heavy eating, smoking, sleeplessness and other problems.
Smoking was highest for people who got under six hours of sleep, with 31 percent saying they were current smokers. Those who got nine or more hours also were big puffers, with 26 percent smoking.
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