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May 21, 2012
In Today's Issue
- The "secret" to losing belly fat...
- Shift Work Could Set You Up For Obesity And Diabetes...
- 1 Quick Technique To Burn More Fat
The "secret" to losing belly fat...
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Shift Work Could Set You Up For Obesity And Diabetes...
Dear Reader,
Some of the strongest evidence yet that short (or disrupted) sleep is bad for your metabolism. While this is the norm for almost 15 million Americans who work outside the standard "9 to 5" schedule, a new study appearing in the journal Science Translational Medicine finds that such a schedule dramatically raises your blood sugar levels, and this in turn raises your risk for both diabetes and obesity.
The research saw that adults who were otherwise healthy but where sleeping on schedules that were at odds with the natural biological clocks made 32% less insulin than they did when they were properly rested. Sleep deprivation caused blood sugar to rise significantly and in some instances the increase went into the pre-diabetic range.
What's more, the numbers of calories their bodies burned while at rest went down almost 8%, which over the course of a year, could well appear as a weight gain of almost 13 pounds.
What this tells experts is that the modern world with its excess work hours, loads of unrelenting pressure and no sleep is not good for us metabolically according to associate neuroscientist Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD from the division of sleep medicine out of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
The study involved 21 men and women (half in their 20s, the other half in their 60s) who remained in a sleep lab, under carefully controlled conditions for a month.
All were well rested and healthy when the study started. The subjects lived in dimly lit spaces that didn't have windows, so their bodies could not naturally adjust to daytime and nighttime.
For three weeks the team kept the subjects awake for 28 hours at a time so that they were eating in the middle of what should have been night, and sleeping during what should have been daytime. They weren't allowed to sleep more than 6 hours in each 24 hour time period, a schedule intended to create sleep deprivation.
The researchers used blood testing to monitor blood sugar before and after meals, and to measure hormones tied to appetite, stress and energy regulation. The study subjects had higher blood sugar levels, regardless of age or sex, after being deprived of sleep than they did when well rested. What's more, during times of sleep deprivation, participants burned fewer calories at rest than they did when they'd gotten enough sleep.
Earlier research on sleep and metabolism has found blood sugar does rise after a poor night's sleep because our muscles are less sensitive to insulin. Insulin resistance brings on many problems in the body, including polycystic ovary syndrome, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Sleep deprived people have less energy for exercise, and have also been shown to eat more snacks and drink sugared beverages, while eating less of the good-for-you fruits and veggies.
Insulin resistance isn't the only problem that comes with disrupted sleep...
Continues below...
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Shift Work Could Set You Up For Obesity And Diabetes... Continued...
Not getting the sleep your body needs seems to keep the pancreas from making
the right amount of insulin to meet your energy demands. The pancreas "is tired" according
to Buxton and this is why it can't respond properly. It does not appear to be
a problem with supply of insulin, but rather an inability to sense the real glucose
level of the body, or an inability to respond as it would normally. Why the organ
gets fatigued remains unexplained.
The study also found that the metabolic disruption reverses after the subjects
were allowed to get the proper amount of sleep on a regular schedule. This suggests
that people need to make sleep a priority if they want to stay healthy.
So if you work the night shift, you have to be very serious about protecting
that time during the day when you sleep - don't let other things eat into that
time. Try to limit rapid changes in work schedule - ideally you'd be able to
work an extended period on the same shift so your body can adapt. Also, eating
a balanced diet and making time for exercise will help, as these things are so
important to long-term health.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=157030
MedicineNet info on sleep:
http://www.medicinenet.com/sleep/article.htm
MedicineNet info on insulin resistance:
http://www.medicinenet.com/insulin_resistance/article.htm
National Sleep Foundation info on shift work and sleep:
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/sleep-topics/shift-work-and-sleep
CDC info on shift work and long hours:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/workschedules/
Buxton, O. Science Translational Medicine, April 11, 2012:
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/129/129ra43.abstract
Press release, Brigham and Women's Hospital, April 11, 2012:
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/about_bwh/
publicaffairs/news/pressreleases/PressRelease.aspx?
sub=0&PageID=1117
Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, associate neuroscientist, Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston:
https://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/237/
Orfeu+M+Buxton+PhD
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