Sleep deprived teens gain weight, study reveals
A study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine Sleep Centre in Houston has suggested that teenagers who get less than eight hours of sleep per night are at higher risk of putting on weight.Lata Casturi, lead author of the study, and her colleagues at the sleep centre, found that teenage boys who slept for seven hours or less had a Body Mass Index which was 3.8 per cent higher than their peers who got more than seven hours sleep a night.
Radha Rao, co-author of the study, said: "When you don't get enough sleep, it drives leptin levels down, which means you don't feel as satisfied after you eat."
She explained that sleep deprivation also leads to a rise in gherlin which makes you want to eat more as it interferes with your appetite.
When experienced together, people ca n be more prone to overeating, which can cause an increase in weight.
In 2010, a study investigating the link between sleep duration and weight gain, which was published in the journal Sleep, revealed that men who got less than six hours sleep per night, and women who had more than nine hours gained weight.
