A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine reveals how extremes of sleep, both too much and too little, can be hazardous to your health and cause fat to develop around your organs.
This may be due to stress as it was found that social factors such as the need to work three jobs in a bad economy, could be causing dangerous fat deposition around vital organs.
The lead author of the study, Kristen G. Hairston says that we put a lot of stock in diet, but this study raises interesting questions about the way we lead our lives in modern day society and the fact that it is not just our diet that is contributing to obesity but stress too.
In individuals under 40, the study showed a clear association between averaging five hours or less of sleep each night and large increases in visceral fat, or fat around the organs. Of the study participants under 40, Hispanic men and black women were the largest groups to report getting such little sleep.
It is especially important that we get enough sleep during the really stressful periods in our lives such as going to college, getting married or divorced, having children and suffering a bereavement.
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