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September 10, 2009
In Today's Issue
- Fact: Poor Sleep Increases The Risk of Death/ Disease
- Too Little Sleep May Contribe To Risk Of Diabetes
- Announcing: Doctor Approved Store Cupboard Remedies that Really Work...
Fact: Poor Sleep Increases The Risk of Death/ Disease
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Too Little Sleep May Contribe To Risk Of Diabetes
Dear Reader,
A small but intriguing study out of the University of Chicago set out to look at the role sleep restriction - you know the later bedtimes and earlier wake up times we've all become accustomed to - might play in the risk for diabetes.
The findings of the small but detailed work suggests that those at risk of diabetes tend to get too little sleep, not enough exercise and eat calorie and saturated fat laden Western diets.
Using a randomized crossover design, the study included five men and six women of an average age 40, who had volunteered to be part of research projects.
The subjects fell into the overweight category, reported that they didn't exercise very often but were otherwise healthy. These participants reported they slept just under 8 hours a day.
The team then put the subjects through two 14-day periods of controlled exposure to a sedentary lifestyle where unhealthy food was readily available.
The subjects stayed in a lab setting where their activity, sleep, diet and blood chemistry were monitored.
The subjects weren't allowed to exercise, but junk food was plentiful. For one session participants were allowed to sleep 8.5 hours a day, for the other session the amount of sleep allowed was cut down to 5.5 hours - achieved by going to bed later and getting up earlier, a familiar pattern for most of us.
Without being able to exercise, and surrounded with lots of unhealthy foods, it's no surprise that the participants gained more than four pounds, no matter how much they slept.
The difference came in their ability to control their blood sugar - depending on how much sleep they got subjects responded differently to two very common sugar tests.
If a subject didn't sleep enough, the blood sugar reading was higher, and there was less sensitivity by the body to the sugar-lowering hormone insulin.
Taking this discovery one step further, it may well be that shorter sleep patterns might facilitate insulin resistance and reduced glucose tolerance, both risks for diabetes.
The good news is that you can significantly cut your risk of this life changing diagnosis by doing two very simple things:
1) Lose 5%-10% of your current weight, and
2) Get a half-hour of moderate exercise five days a week.
"When the unhealthy aspects of the Westernized lifestyle are combined with reduced sleep duration, this might contribute to the increased risk of many overweight and sedentary individuals developing diabetes," explains lead researcher Plamen Penev MD, Ph.D. of the University of Chicago, "If confirmed by future larger studies, these results would indicate that a healthy lifestyle should include not only healthy eating habits and adequate amounts of physical activity, but also obtaining a sufficient amount of sleep."
Continues below...
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Too Little Sleep May Contribe To Risk Of Diabetes Continued...
The research will appear in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Of course this study involved the detailed evaluation of only a handful of subjects, so more work will be needed.
Still, if you're at risk for diabetes, or concerned about your risks, it's wise to consider how much sleep you get each night, and make changes to that you make enjoying enough truly restful sleep a priority - part of your overall plan of eating right and exercising to be healthy.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20090812/sleep-less-get-diabetes?src=RSS_PUBLIC
WebMD info on sleep disorders:
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/default.htm
The American Diabetes Association info on diabetes:
http://www.diabetes.org/
WebMD info on diabetes:
http://diabetes.webmd.com/default.htm
The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism:
http://jcem.endojournals.org/
Study abstract, ahead of print, in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism:
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jc.2009-0483v1
The Endocrine Society news release:
http://www.endo-society.org/media/press/2008/NewsBriefJuly.cfm
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