The message we hope that people take away is that prioritizing getting enough sleep may be an important part of minimizing your risk for obesity and the health problems associated with it.

Greg Potter

Categorized in : Lifestyle

A few (not all) previous experiments have found that if you reduce how long people sleep, some people burn slightly fewer calories at rest.

Our findings suggest that people sleeping in this seven to nine hour range are less likely to be overweight than those sleeping less.