As we reported yesterday, overweight people don’t eat enough food … of the right kind.
Similarly, while many may assume that overweight folks are lazy and are not motivated enough, the truth is that they may be too stressed out.
Specifically, stress increases appetite.
And it is well-documented that stress causes people to crave high-fat, high-carbohydrate junk foods which pack on belly fat. For example, the National Academy of Sciences reported in 2003:
[The stress hormone cortisol] (GCs) … increase the salience of pleasurable or compulsive activities (ingesting sucrose, fat, and drugs, or wheel-running). This motivates ingestion of “comfort food.” … GCs act systemically to increase abdominal fat depots…. In stressed or depressed humans chronic stress induces either increased comfort food intake and body weight gain …. We propose that people eat comfort food in an attempt to reduce the activity in the chronic stress-response network with its attendant anxiety. These mechanisms, determined in rats, may explain some of the epidemic of obesity occurring in our society.
And while many would assume that overweight people are lazy and sleep too much, a lack of sleep actually increases obesity. For example, the Chicago Tribune reported last year:
In 1960, Americans averaged 81/2 hours of sleep a night …
Study after study showing that a lack of good quality sleep—seven to nine hours of uninterrupted slumber—is making us fat. And it’s not just overworked adults who are gaining weight. Long-term studies are finding that sleep-deprived children also are piling on the pounds.
“You’re fighting against the tide to lose weight when you’re sleep-deprived,” said Dr. Amy Aronsky, medical director of The Center for Sleep Disorders in Portland, Ore., and a board certified sleep specialist. “Good sleep is as important as a good diet and exercise when it comes to weight loss.”
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Studies have shown that when sleep is restricted, the hormone ghrelin increases and the hormone leptin decreases. Ghrelin tells our brain that we’re hungry, while leptin tells it we’ve eaten enough.
Average leptin levels decreased 18 percent when sleep was restricted to four hours per night over two nights, according to a study published in the journal Sleep Medicine by Dr. Eve Van Cauter, Average ghrelin levels increased 28 percent when sleep was restricted.
In other words, when we don’t get enough sleep we feel hungry, even if we’ve eaten enough.
In another Van Cauter study, healthy young volunteers showed signs of prediabetes when they were restricted to four hours of sleep for six nights in a row.
The stress hormone cortisol also surges when we’re sleep-deprived. When that happens, we crave high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods (“comfort foods”) to increase our serotonin levels to calm down, said Dr. Michael Breus, author of “The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan.”
Other studies consistently show that adults sleeping fewer than six hours a night increase their likelihood for becoming overweight or obese — even when exercising and eating right, Decker said. Among adults ages 32 to 49, those averaging five hours of sleep were twice as likely to be obese after nine years compared with those averaging seven hours.
The news for kids is just as alarming. A study of 8,234 children (starting at age 38 weeks) found that the odds of being obese by age 7 increased 50 percent for children averaging fewer than 101/2 hours of sleep. Another study found that 58 percent of obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep, while just 11 percent of non-obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep.
In addition, numerous studies show that melatonin reduces body weight and burns fat. Our body produces melatonin when it is dark. If we don’t get enough sleep, it means the light is on too much, and our body can’t produce enough melatonin.
Finally, reducing stress and getting enough sleep gives people extra energy to exercise. On other other hand, if people are stressed out and sleep deprived, they’ll be focused on just getting through the day, and will thus be less likely to exercise.
Of course, exercise is a powerful stress-reducer and cure for insomnia … so it goes both ways.
Now you're on to something: New, Improved SLEEPSNAX (tm)!!!
Mmmmm, Don't Just Dream It...Eat It, and Then Be It.
Another million-dollar idea spawned by the ZH fevercloud.
Too fucking funny! I really think you're onto something!
So what's the point of the article? It's fairly evident that overweight folks eat more of the wrong thing and exercise little. So what else is new? Yeah, sleep would help but...I still don't understand the point since it simply repeated what we all know.
Wow GW, you've hit an all time low: lardass-apologist! In america they are always trying to find some excuse for fatties. There are none. I used to live in america, and know damned well that those fat sacks of shit are really nothing but LAZY, JUNKFOOD eating, SWINE! Keep on defending homo penguinicus, dumbass!
I'll bite. Funny thing. I live in Japan, and the population here is getting fatter, too! MacDonald's is the #1 restaurant chain in the country. So... Tsukato... What do you have to say about that?
You're about as Chinese as a deep fried Mars bar.
I lived in Nagoya for 8 years, and never did I see anyone who looked like the pigs back home. By the way, how's the radiation treatin you? :)
PS- never said I was Chinese dumbass, I'm american. And actually, I think Mossburger is more popular than maku.
Gomen nasai Debu-chan :) Shi ne manukei!
It takes a lot of work to lose weight and keep it off. Much of American dietary "education" is lies. Whole wheat is still crappy compared to other foods.
And, there is poison in a lot of food that seems "wholesome" - who would think that 100% Whole Wheat Bread would have High Fructose Corn Syrup, cellulose (sawdust), and Bromine (banned in Canada and probably EU also - it displace iodine in the body). And these are national brands that have good reputations.
Why is there so much soy? Corn needs a rotation crop, and soy is that rotation crop - so there is all this soy on the market and it has to be used somehow - so soy (an endocrine disruptor and especially harmful to males) gets added to everything. Sure the Japanese eat a lot of soy - but it is FERMENTED and the action of bacteria changes the chemical content of the food.
All that crap you mentioned in bread is just what I would expect there to be in bread. Who would eat bread thinking it was healthy? Bread has a good reputation with fat lard-@$$ Walmart food section trolling dreadnaughts (Walmart food section mostly all processed dreck)
Corn doesn't need a rotation crop. But I don't know why there is so much soy? Probably it's useful for making processed food that the whales demand? I am just guessing here because I don't know.
It's very funny that the average ZHer is all about taking control of debt and not blame others. But their own fat ass? Oh thats caused by alien deathrays and poisons, its not their fault at all.
Income-expense=change in debt
Food intake-exercise=change in fat
Debt and fat are related. The inability for people to take responsibility is why these cause problems today.
Hey Tsukato - stop insulting penguins! Their fatty layer allows them to survive cold water and antartic storms...
Sooo.. I take it you've never heard of stress on the job or Cortisol then?
Cortisol is also a key factor in degenerative memory and congnitive tasks as it's known to actually destroy neural tissue when it's too high.
Several things of mention here:
1. the current economic policies of this country have devalued the currency so much that it now requires two people in the family to have jobs
2. this causes familial stress
3. this stress causes raised levels of cortisol in YOUNG children and actually affects their cognitive growth.
4. High levels of stress and cortisol in the mother of unborn children has a negative impact on brain development in the fetus.
5. You're lack of understanding of the correlations leads me to believe that you believe yourself too important to ask questions.
6. There is no reason that we should be in this mess we're in other than the gov't has fucked it up by incompetence or on purpose and I don't think it's possible to separate the two.
7. Read up on Coristol
8. I understand that it's not a blanket cause, so pack that "har har" grin up your ass because this bullet point just disarmed you.
9. the food we eat is subsidized and we are slowly poisoning ourselves with shit like Aspartame
10. the FDA does NOT protect us.. it protects companies that make a shit load of money and lobby for their own cause.
YAWN. Whose fault is it? Sure, the big bad corporations, and government are out to get everyone, but here's a novel thought: LEAVE IF ITS SO BAD AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOURSELF INTO A VICTIM!
LEAVE IF ITS SO BAD AND YOU HAVE TO MAKE YOURSELF INTO A VICTIM!
What a wussie thing to do, leave instead of trying to make things better.
Sure :) Its much smarter to stay put, be poor, and hang out with go-nowheres like you. You remind me of those fucking loser blacks at LAX that are always hitting me up for money for City Kids. The sooner people like you and the city kids die off, the better off the US will be.
As is often pointed out here....
If you're an American it's because your ancestors were quitters.
Maybe they made the right decision? Think about it.
Really, how do you figure? People who left their home countries, went to a new land without a safety net, and did whatever it took to succeed, were losers?! You lost me there Einstein. And you idiots who gave him a grren arrow must be absolute fucking retards, or just did it because you are all just fat fucking losers who hate me because I am so much better than you. Either way HA!
Nicely done.. deflect and ridicule. Standard gov't tactic.
Leave? whyshould I be the one who leaves? I'm not a quitter like you. I'm changing my lifestyle so that I am NOT a victim but there are so many more people out there that cannot afford to do this.
Aside from that, whent the very limited pipeline for food is controlled by few entities, do you really have control over this? no.. you either eat the shit or you grow/hunt your own.
The govt's economic policies have turned this country into a culture of people who will do anything to survive and if that means making sure "you" don't, then that's the way it is. That's some bullshit right there..
Hey Champ, how am I a quitter? I went through some real tough times trying to get things going here. Nothing was spoon fed to me. So I'm successful now, but I deserve it. All you victims back in the states are laughable. I feel nothing for your suffering because its all avoidable and probably deserved. Go soak your head in a toilet Victim-chan.
PS- If there are so many people out there who can't afford it, why should I care?! I'm not responsible for the world, and frankly, the poor have always been the majority because the majority are stupid and lazy. They get what they put into life. End of story. Fuck em.
As far as I'm concerend, you couldn't hack it; and anyone who is surving the storm in the US is far more resilient than you. So.. I'll put it this way. When we regain control of this ship and restore it (and we will restore it).. don't fucking come back so you can reap the rewards. You left it.. you can stay right where you are. Quitter.. once one, always one. Chump.
Hey, that sounds pretty inspiring! How about after you heros have done all the heavy lifting, I come back with heaps of Yuan and become your overlord? If you have any hot sisters, wife or daughter, they can become my concubine too. I can't wait :)
suckto- shut up and get me an egg roll
Hahahaha... wait...it wasn't really all that clever :(
Tsukato, let me guess, you got picked on in the USA and went crying back to the homeland. Did someone beat the shit out of your sorry ass? So much hatred for the US, sounds very bitter to me, perhaps you have a few issues that a professional psychiatrist can address. Women trapped in a man's body?
Wow, you got my number! I'm hanging my head in shame now :) Fucking idiot!
That is it? That is the best you can do? You should hang your head in shame. Like all your comments that is just lame.
The CIA memos
This May Be Used in the INterrogation of a High Value al Qadea Detainee
http://web.archive.org/web/20090611184302/http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o...
http://law.shu.edu/ProgramsCenters/PublicIntGovServ/policyresearch/uploa... (large PDF file)
Ok boys and girls, what have we learned about Tsukato: 1) he is a racist (which usually denotes a lack of education). 2) He has a real hard on for anyone who is over weight (which means he was a fat kid who when he was younger he got the shit kicked out of him so he is still a little bitter). 3) He hates the USA and insults it yet his only solution to our problems is to run away to another country (where he is still probably a huge failure) and advocating the killing of anyone who is overweight (again see my earlier point of "lack of an education") which logic would dictate he has serious physiological problems. Finally, this guy is definitively an in the closet homosexual, as BigInJapan said, there are websites you should go and visit, and get a date and stop the hate.
Wrong too many times to count :)
I'm not a racist; however, I'm not enamored by monkeys in the way weak americans are.
I have a masters degree from ariz. state
I've never been fat because I am naturally athletic and enjoy most sports
I love america, but not the swine americans. You have become dispicably weak. White men must cowtow to inferior minorities, and accept women who are little better than bi-pedal urinals. You all got in over your heads buying real estate, think you were going to get rich quick, and now despise the banks that gave you your shot, that most of you blew.
I'm not a loser in my opinion. I own two manufacturing facilities in SZ province, two english schools in SZ and CQ, a tour company taking chinese to OZ, and US, and a hotpot restaurant. I probably make more tax-free cash than anyone who has posted on this story.
I didn't run to Japan or China. I came with a wad of cash, and a goal to get rich. What are you, a fuckin commie? Nah, just a LOSER!
The killing of fatties was a joke for my own laughs. Fatties are actually too inconsequential as humans. They lack even the faintest amount of self control, and thus, are complete losers most times. I just said this shit because I know what sort of losers jump on an artical like this.
Lastly, homosexuality. Nope, never been so inclined. However, if someone is gay, why should I give half a shit? To each his/her own, in the bedroom.
Now go kill yourself, you utter disaster of a human being :)
PS- Its psychological, not physiological, shit for brains.