Scientists have long associated sleep deprivation with obesity, but whether one causes the other has been unclear.
According to two new studies, sleeping fewer hours than your body needs does in fact impact how you interpret unhealthy food choices.
In one of the studies, 25 men and women of normal weights were placed in an fMRI scanner and then shown photos of nutritious and unhealthy foods. This experiment was conducted after the subjects had either gotten four or up to nine hours of sleep. The other study examined 23 healthy adults after nights of normal and restricted sleep, where the participants rated their food cravings while inside a fMRI scanner.
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