Sleep loss can make you fat: Study

Sleep loss can make you fat: Study

Researchers have long pointed to a correlation between a 

steep rise in obesity in industrialized nations and a decline in 

sleep duration.

Scientists had found evidence

 that a lack of sleep causes 

changes in brain activity that 

lead to people feeling hungrier

 and craving more fattening

 foods.

Researchers have long pointed

 to a correlation between a

 steep rise in obesity in

 industrialized nations and a

 decline in sleep duration.

A causal link was suspected‚

 but science has not been able to explain the mechanism‚ until now.

A team from the University of California said they used MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

 scans to spot changes in the brain activity of sleep-deprived test subjects.

Researchers said these findings provide an explanatory brain mechanism by which

 insufficient sleep may lead to the development/maintenance of obesity.