Does your child have a weight problem? Make sure they have sufficient sleep.

Does your child have a weight problem? Make sure they have sufficient sleep.

Children who sleep less than 8 hours, snack more and take in more fat and carbohydrates. JR

http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=27900

ADOLESCENT SLEEP DURATION AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION

The Association of Sleep Duration with Adolescents’ Fat and Carbohydrate Consumption

Allison Weiss¹; Fang Xu, MS¹; Amy Storfer-Isser, MS¹; Alicia Thomas, MS, RD, LD¹; Carolyn E. Ievers-Landis, PhD²; Susan Redline, MD, MPH¹

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Study Objectives: To investigate the relation between sleep duration and energy consumption in an adolescent cohort.
Design: Cross-sectional.
Setting: Free-living environment.
Participants: Two hundred forty adolescents (mean age 17.7 ± 0.4 years).
Measurements and Results:Daily 24-hour food-recall questionnaires and wrist-actigraphymeasurements of sleep duration were employed to test the hypothesis that shorter weekday sleep duration (< p =" 0.004)" p =" 0.001).">Conclusion: Quantitative measures of macronutrient intake in adolescents were associated with objectively measured sleep duration. Short sleep duration may increase obesity risk by causing small changes in eating patterns that cumulatively alter energy balance.
Keywords: Sleep duration, diet, obesity, adolescents, 24-hour food recall

Citation: Weiss A; Xu F; Storfer-Isser A; Thomas A; Ievers-Landis CE; Redline S. The association of sleep duration with adolescents’ fat and carbohydrate consumption.

SLEEP 2010;33(9):1201-1209.