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28th August 2006 : Nap your way to weight loss

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.