Submitted by marshall_M on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 10:10
Getting sufficient rest could be a tough problem. Two new experiments show that a lack of sleep means bad health. Children who do not have regular sleep have a higher risk of weight problems. By getting sufficient rest, adults can also improve their memory function significantly. Post resource - Studies connect lack of sleep to obesity and impaired memory by Newsytype.com.
Connection between sleep and being overweight
The rest habits of 300 children were studied. They were 4 to 10 years old within the study. Kids that slept irregularly tended to be obese. This was something noticed in the study. The amount of sleep the children got did not correlate. It was just the change in sleeping patterns from day to day. Dr. David Gozal, who was a lead researcher on the study, explained the results by saying "We think that the direction of the arrow is you sleep less, you eat more, you exercise less because you're tired, and therefore you gain more weight."
How sleep and memory connect with each other
Nature Neuroscience today is a journal. Another rest study was published in it. There was a discovery that subjects who took naps right after studying would retain 25 percent more information than other subjects. This is what German scientists discovered. The information is at first only listed into the short-term part of the brain. It's believed that it then gets “downloaded” into the long term part of the brain during sleep. Memories become stronger in sleep. That is the basic idea.
Why it is hard to get sufficient rest
It could be really hard to get sufficient sleep for those of almost any age. Typically, school aged kids are intended to be getting nine hrs of rest. ”Enough” rest is between 8 and 10 hrs for adults. Resting until you naturally wake up is what sufficient rest really is. It seems to actually help for you to “catch up” on your rest though. Catching up on rest over the weekend can help reduce risk of obesity between 280 percent and 400 percent.
Citations
AFP
google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ir9Aq3KpWK1wbwDG1A9sqQLxq0nQ?docId=CNG.3d70bb040bdfdd29691ee978be81fc1a.2e1
Fox News
foxnews.com/health/2011/01/24/study-sleep-extra-pounds-kids/
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