Is the link due to?
1. Lack of sleep messing up metabolism and hormones or body recovery?
2. Lack of sleep being an additional problem caused by something else (Stress, overwork, bad diet, etc.), thus lack of sleep becomes more of a sign, and less of a cause, of obesity creating problems?
3. The behavior of those that lack sleep? They’re stressed out, impulsive, prolly work shitty jobs with no free time and therefore gravitate to, or are only provided, fattening junk?
4. Any combination of the three?
I read an article saying night owls die earlier and it just goes on to say “We ALL know night owls drink beer and alchohol, which causes problems” like I’ve never drunk in my life, that wasn’t a genuine study. Is there a similar thing here?
In: Biology
For anything to gain mass, you need molecules.
You cannot gain weight without introducing new molecules into your body.
You can have the worst sleep in the world but if you’re starving, you’re not gonna gain a single pound.
Most people aren’t starving though, they’re just living life and they’re tired. So an extra Starbucks drink here, an extra snack there – to keep up energy in the day due to poor sleep, and you can easily add 500 calories extra in a day that you wouldn’t otherwise need.
If every day you eat 500 extra calories, you would have reached 3500 excess calories you don’t need by the end of that week – that’s equal to one pound.
If you keep that up for the entire year, that’s 50 pounds.
That’s how poor sleep “causes” weight gain. No one who is chronically tired has any chance of managing their diet.
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