-An article from Reuters Women, try not to think of this if you lie awake at night: having trouble sleeping means you’re likely to gain weight. As if simply getting older weren’t hard enough, new research shows that middle-aged and older women who have trouble falling or staying asleep may pack on more pounds than their well-rested contemporaries. A number of studies have found that sleep-deprived children and adults are more likely to be overweight than those who usually get a full night’s rest. But many of those studies assessed people at one point in time, so it was hard to know which came first, the sleep problems or the excess pounds. A few studies have followed people over time, but they’ve disagreed about whether poor sleep is linked to expanding waistlines. The new findings, reported in the International Journal … Continue reading
Many of us watch the television show “The Biggest Loser” each week, and see an amazing transformation of people losing 100+ pounds over just a few months. We see them working out like crazy, but don’t see quite as much about how they eat. I heard one of the Biggest Loser Trainers on a local radio show recently talking about this subject, and about the strict diet they keep in the house. Concurrently, new statistics from the U.S. government out this week state 34% of American adults age 20 and up are obese. 68% of the same population are overweight. And whats worse, is that this number is seen as “relatively good news” in relation to past trends according the the director of the CDC’s division of nutrition, William Dietz. No matter what the trend numbers might say, its clearly an … Continue reading
