Fragmented Sleep Reduces 24h Fat Oxidation by > 50% - Not Getting a Good Night's Sleep Sets You Up For Obesity.
Image 1: It looks awkward, but sleep masks and ear-plugs are effective, cheap and save ways to improve sleep quality (image from lackofsleepsymptoms ) I think you will be familiar with the idea that an insufficient amount of sleep has been found to correlate (! not induce !) with visceral obesity and other negative health markers (e.g. Strian. 2005 ). Now a study from a the Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute Maastricht (NUTRIM) at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands found that not getting a good nights sleep or, in this particular case, waking up every hour, reduces the amount of fat you burn in a period of 24 hours by -52% ( Hursel. 2011 , cf. figure 1). Other than in the initially mentioned epidemiological guesswork ... ah pardon, correlation studies, Hursel et al. had their 15 healthy male volunteers report to the laboratory twice (>2 weeks between the sessions of the randomized, single-blind cross-over study). Du...