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Sleep events are as important as diet and exercise to your weight in balance. So the conclusion of a series of studies conducted by experts.

The study by a team from the University of Chicago shows, lack of sleep can reduce the effects of the diet. When dieters sleep quality have reduced body weight two times more than the dieters who sleep less.

The reaction of this sleep deficit, obesity is also carried out by scientists from Australia on the relationship between lack of sleep and weight gain.

Meanwhile, experts from Columbia University, New York, who studied the sleeping habits of 18,000 people found that people who sleep less than four hours a night and 73 percent the risk of obesity later in life than people who sleep 7-9 hours every night .

Even people who slept an average of 6 hours per night had a 23 percent chance of obesity. On the other hand, people who sleep too much, about 10 hours a night, a 11 percent risk of suffering from obesity.

The question is, why lack of sleep makes the body weight increased? The experts believe, lack of sleep, the hormones ghrelin and leptin interfere. Both are hormones that regulate hunger and appetite.

When we lack sleep, your body will react as if we eat less, the level of leptin and ghrelin levels rise will fall. As a result, the stomach is hungry and to elicit eating foods rich in fat and sugar.Obviously this will make weight increased. These hormonal changes also disrupt the metabolism so more fat is stored.

Other studies have shown, lack of sleep will interfere with the biological clock of the body or the circadian rhythms that regulate glucose and insulin. Lack of sleep increases the hormone cortisol, a hormone that the use of energy in the body regulates.High cortisol levels are associated with insulin resistance and a high body mass index.