{"id":4080,"date":"2010-10-25T02:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T00:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4080"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:32:51","slug":"sleep-fat-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/sleep-fat-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Sleep = Less Fat Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I\u00a0reported on\u00a0a study that suggested\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/lose-weight-sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\">sleep deprivation\u00a0could lead to overeating<\/a>. And now there&#8217;s more on the subject of sleep and weight&#8230; but from the opposite direction. A lack of sleep doesn&#8217;t just increase your risk of gaining fat; it could also decrease your chances of losing it. Dr Arya Sharma, of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsharma.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Sharma&#8217;s Obesity Notes<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsharma.ca\/obesity-how-not-sleeping-wrecks-your-diet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains the latest findings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a study published in a recent issue of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20921542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annals of Internal Medicine<\/a><\/em>, Arlet Nedeltcheva and colleagues from the University of Chicago, tested the hypothesis that lack of sufficient sleep adversely affects the neuroendocrine response and metabolic effects of caloric restriction.<\/p>\n<p>In a complicated randomised, 2-period, 2-condition crossover study, 10 overweight nonsmoking adults (3 women and 7 men) with a mean age of 41 years and a BMI around 27, were subjected to 14 days of moderate caloric restriction with 8.5 or 5.5 hours of nighttime sleep in a sleep laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the same amount of caloric restriction, sleep deprivations resulted in 55% less fat loss and alarmingly increased the loss of fat-free mass (muscle) by almost 60%.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep deprivation was also associated with increased hunger and reduced fat oxidation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it was a small study, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see the results confirmed by additional research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I\u00a0reported on\u00a0a study that suggested\u00a0sleep deprivation\u00a0could lead to overeating. And now there&#8217;s more on the subject of sleep and weight&#8230; but from the opposite direction. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28,29],"tags":[642,1487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9201,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4080\/revisions\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}