Not Enough Sleep May Raise Diabetes Risk
If you don’t get enough sleep on a recurring basis, and have a sedentary lifestyle and overeating, it may fuel the development of diabetes, according to the results of a new study.
“Our findings suggest that combining the unhealthy aspects of the Westernized lifestyle with insufficient sleep may add to the risk of overweight and sedentary individuals to develop diabetes,” Dr. Plamen Penev, of the University of Chicago, Illinois, and a senior author of the study, told Reuters Health.
Penev subjected 11 healthy but sedentary middle-aged men and women to two 14-day periods of sedentary living with free access to food and either 5.5 hours or 8.5 hours of sleep every night. As sleep times changed from 8.5 to 5.5 hours, they went to bed later and got out of bed earlier. As a result, average sleep duration was reduced by roughly two hours a day.
They showed changes in their response to two common sugar tests, which were similar to those seen in people with an increased risk of developing diabetes. So make sure you get enough sleep. It keeps you healthy as well as recharging you.
Last Updated on August 12th, 2009
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