To lose weight? Sleep and relax!

To lose weight? Sleep and relax!

Did you know that your lack of sleep could be responsible for your weight gain? And it's not just because the fact of sleep keeps you from snacking ...

Leptin and ghrelin, the great leaders!

In reality, the proverb "He who sleeps dines" has never been more true that since the discovery that fatigued individuals saw their leptin levels decrease. What is Leptin? To control our appetite, simply. For its part, ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, increases when sleep is low or of poor quality.

A dangerous way of life

Thirty studies conducted in seven countries showed that the rapid increase in obesity in recent years is partly due to the fact that people sleep less. We blame the workload heavier and eating too much television and the Internet. Thus, people in the study who slept 8 hours or more were less affected by obesity that participants slept on average 5 hours per night. However the relationship obesity / sleep is not verified in the case of obese called "morbid."

Relax

Many people attribute their stress overweight is that when stretched, they are more likely to eat to reduce stress. That may be true, but there is not it ...

Studies show that stress would generate the storage of fat in the abdominal area. Finally, stress also stimulate food intake in the brain, which would push the big stress to foods especially high in carbohydrates (bread, pasta, potatoes ...).

In conclusion: sleep and relax ... if you get there!