After Eating, You Can Sleep: How Sleep Affects Weight Loss
Sleep is known to restore normal brain function, and it also turns out to be directly related to the process of losing weight.
According to a study in the Medical Yearbook, healthy sleep has an incredible impact on weight loss.
Of course, it would be foolish to hope that after eating a cake for dinner and sleeping for 8.5 hours, you will wake up a couple of kilos lighter, but these treasured 8.5 hours, coupled with a diet, actually allow you to get rid of fat much faster.
How was this established? It's simple: scientists divided people into two groups and observed them for 2 weeks.
One group was allowed to sleep 8.5 hours, while the other group was allowed to sleep only 5.5 hours (this figure, by the way, is normal for the age of the people who took part in the experiment).
Both groups were fed a diet with a caloric content of 1450 kcal per day.
To summarize: the first group, which slept 8.5 hours a day, lost about half of their total weight loss while sleeping, while the second group, which slept 5.5 hours a day, lost only a quarter.
Another important observation: people who slept less lost more muscle than fat, since the loss of the treasured 3 hours of sleep triggered the body to store fat in reserve at the expense of muscle.
And one more thing: the subjects who enjoyed 8.5 hours of sleep felt less hungry when they woke up.
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