Next time you’re prowling around the kitchen for a midnight snack, just go back to sleep. You’re not really hungry, you’re dreaming…
Wake-up call! Studies show that when healthy adults get 4 hours of sleep for even just 2 nights in a row, the hunger causing hormone, called ghrelin, in our bodies increases by 28%! Resultant of the increase in ghrelin, study participant’s appetites also increased by an enormous 23%. Getting less than 6 hours of sleep on a regular basis will have a similarly poor effect on your decision making skills: aka, resisting junk food temptation. If you’re striving to eat well and live a healthy lifestyle, don’t write off your sleep patterns as negligible. Your shut-eye benefits your health more than you think. Spend some quality time with your pillow.
A little less sleep, a LOT more eat. Go to bed.
