September 03, 2006
Nap and Lose the Pounds?
Want to lose weight? Turn off the TV and take a nap. That's what the University of Michigan's Michael Sivak found when he studied the relationship between sleeping, eating and obesity.Sivak said a person who sleeps seven hours a night and consumes 2,500 calories during the rest of the day can trim 147 calories simply by replacing an hour of "inactive wakefulness" with an hour more of sleep — or about 14 pounds a year.Sivak found that people tend to chow down during these periods of wakeful inactivity. Each additional hour of sack time reduces caloric intake by about 6 percent, he reported in the latest issue of Obesity Reviews.
St. Paul Pioneer Press | 09/01/2006 | tip of the day: nap to lose weight
