Want to Lose Weight? , Try Sleeping More.<br />CNN reports that a study published <br /> in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine suggests you could lose extra weight by increasing how much you sleep.<br />The study examined overweight young adults who usually slept less than six and a half hours per night to increase their sleep to around eight and a half hours per night for two weeks.<br />The study's participants who did extend their sleep time lowered their calorie intake by 270 calories per day on average. .<br />This is almost like a game-changer for weight loss or weight maintenance. , Dr. Esra Tasali, author of the study, director Sleep Research Center University of Chicago, via CNN.<br />Researchers say by consuming <br />270 less calories per day, one could <br />lose 26 pounds over three years just through extra hours of sleep. .<br />This is a very well done study answering an important question. , Dr. Bhanuprakash Kolla, sleep psychiatrist and neurologist <br />at the Mayo Clinic, via CNN.<br />They clearly showed that as you increase the amount of sleep, energy intake reduced and this in turn led to modest reductions in weight. , Dr. Bhanuprakash Kolla, sleep psychiatrist and neurologist <br />at the Mayo Clinic, via CNN.<br />So how does sleeping <br />more benefit weight loss?.<br />It could be related to how sleep affects two important hormones, ghrelin and leptin.<br />Ghrelin causes hunger and <br />increases with lack of sleep.<br />Leptin lets us know when we are full.<br />Leptin has been shown to decrease with sleep restriction. Therefore when we are sleep deprived we have less of this hormone and therefore less of a brake on our appetite. , Dr. Bhanuprakash Kolla, sleep psychiatrist and neurologist at <br />the Mayo Clinic, via CNN
