Want to lose weight? Turn off the TV and take a nap, says the Washington Post.


That’s what University of Michigan’s Michael Sivak found when he studied the relationship between sleeping, eating and obesity.


Sivak said a person who sleeps seven hours a night and consumes 2,500 calories during the rest of the day can trim 147 calories simply by replacing an hour of “inactive wakefulness” with an hour more of sleep – or about 14 pounds a year.


Sivak found that people tend to chow down during these periods of wakeful inactivity. Each additional hour of sack time reduces caloric intake by about 6 percent, he reported in a recent issue of Obesity Reviews.


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Comment from: Marcie Anne Redford [Visitor]
I have never heard of that before. If you want to lose weight the easy way which is a cinch! I eat a bowl of cereal in the morning for breakfast, for lunch it's fruit or veggies because bread is full of fat! so lay off the bread! I eat fruit in the afternoon if I'm really hungry then I eat dinner around 5 & then I don't eat anything else after dinner. DO NOT eat after 7 p.m. because that's how you gain the weight. I used to weigh 213 & now I weigh 158 & that was since August 2006 & 55 lbs lighter. If I can do it, you all can do it!
20th November 2006 @ 03:50
Comment from: bedrijfskleding [Visitor] · http://www.bedrijfs-kleding.nl
interesting
26th June 2007 @ 11:22

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