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What will happen if you deprive sleep for many years?
Posted on: 07/Mar/2016 12:15:17 PM
What will happen if you deprive sleep for many years? Sleep deprivation been associated with a surprising array of effects, starting from a lowered intellectual capacity, to a reduced sex drive and a number of serious health problems, such as heart failure, high blood pressure and even diabetes.
This new study puts another item on the list of daunting consequences, by correlating insufficient sleep with the craving of unnecessary food, commonly known as the munchies. Sleep-deprived study volunteers who had already eaten had an uncontrollable urge to consume highly palatable snacks such as biscuits, sweets and crisps.
A group of researchers from the University of Chicago recently published a paper in the journal Sleep, detailing the connection between sleep deprivation and people’s eating habits.
The study, which was partially funded by the Department of Defense, shows that lack of sleep can determine powerful changes in a person’s eating patterns that are similar to the marijuana munchies.
Researcher Erin Hanlon, one of the study`s authors, claims that this effect actually enhances one`s craving for sweet, salty and other types of foods which are considered unhealthy.
Frank Scheer is an Associate Professor at Harvard University`s Brigham and Women`s Hospital mentioned that although the study was conducted on a small number of people, it offers an incredible insight into how our brains and bodies can trigger hunger when we get an insufficient amount of sleep.
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