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Eat in time with your body clock to lose weight

Jun 09 2020...

If you’re trying to lose weight, you may be familiar with diets that restrict what you eat. But what if simply changing when you eat meals could lead to weight loss? READ MORE>>
Five foods that support good sleep

Mar 10 2020...

Getting good sleep is a key to good health, and so is good nutrition. Lucky for you, the two can go hand-in-hand. READ MORE>>
Insomnia and your diet

Feb 27 2020...

Insomnia is the most common sleep complaint, affecting as many as 30 to 35 percent of adults at some point in their lives, and 8 to 10 percent chronically. There’s more to insomnia than feeling tired after the occasional restless night. READ MORE>>
Study links diet with sleep quality

Feb 08 2016...

A new study suggests that the quality of your sleep may be related to the type of food that you eat.

The study involved 26 adults. They had a normal weight and an average age of 35 years READ MORE>>
Study links diet with daytime sleepiness in healthy adults

May 28 2013...

A new study suggests that your level of sleepiness or alertness during the day may be related to the type of food that you eat.

“Increased fat consumption has an acute adverse effect on alertness of otherwise healthy, non-obese adults,” said principal investigator Alexandros Vgontzas, MD, professor of psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa. READ MORE>>
Circadian clock linked to obesity, diabetes and heart attacks

Feb 25 2013...

Disruption in the body's circadian rhythm can lead not only to obesity, but can also increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

This is the first study to definitely show that insulin activity is controlled by the body’s circadian biological clock. The study, which was published on Feb. 21 in the journal Current Biology, helps explain why not only what you eat, but when you eat, matters. READ MORE>>
Dietary nutrients associated with certain sleep patterns

Feb 21 2013...

A new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows for the first time that certain nutrients may play an underlying role in short and long sleep duration and that people who report eating a large variety of foods – an indicator of an overall healthy diet – had the healthiest sleep patterns. The new research is published online, ahead-of-print in the journal Appetite.

“Although many of us inherently recognize that there is a relationship between what we eat and how we sleep, there have been very few scientific studies that have explored this connection, especially in a real-world situation,” said Michael A. Grandner, PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry and member of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at Penn. “ In general, we know that those who report between 7 - 8 hours of sleep each night are most likely to experience better overall health and well being, so we simply asked the question "Are there differences in the diet of those who report shorter sleep, longer sleep, or standard sleep patterns?” READ MORE>>
Lack of sleep may cause overeating

Nov 01 2012...

A new study of 27 normal weight, 30- to 45-year-old men and women examined the association between sleep duration and hunger. Results indicate that increasing the amount of sleep that adults get could lead to reduced food intake, but the hormonal process differs between men and women.

Short sleep increased the total level of ghrelin, a hunger-stimulating hormone, in men but not women and reduced the level of GLP-1, a hormone that makes you feel full, in women but not in men, a sex difference that has not been reported before. READ MORE>>