Sleep Not Enough Makes Children More Vulnerable to Obesity

One research of expert group at Education Center and obesity Research at University of Temple (CORE) USA shows the relationship between sleep time in 1 night and organic weight with the total amount of food which children eating .

The research group had studied on 37 children with aged from 8 to 11 years . Nearly 1 / 3 of them are overweight at the beginning of the research . Experiment lasts for 3 weeks . Stage are distributed as follows : Week 1 child sleep normally , week 2 sleep than usual and 3rd week children sleeping less than usual .

In Week 2, when children sleep the most. The researchers observed Leptin protein is lower than before . Organic medium 's also lighter than 0.2 kg and less than 134 calories in one day .

Chantelle Hart at CORE said that , " The findings from this study shows that increasing children 's sleep at the age of study at night has a significant meaning for prevention against and treat obesity ".