I don’t know how true this study is but I am going to make sure I get my beauty eight hours sleep each night.  At the very least, I won’t get eye bags and wrinkles.  Heh, I sleep till almost noon anyway, and missed breakfast.

You snooze, you lose: weight linked to sleep patterns

GETTING a good night’s sleep may be one of the simplest ways to stay slim, research suggests.

A study has found that women who slept five hours or less a night were at risk of weight gain.

Almost 70,000 women took part in the research, part of a health investigation in the US called the Nurses’ Health Study. Scientists monitored the women for 16 years, keeping records of their weight and sleep patterns.

Compared with sound sleepers, women who slept no more than five hours a night were 32 per cent more likely to experience major weight gain – defined as an increase of 15 kilograms or more – during the course of the study.

They were also 15 per cent more likely to become obese compared with women who slept for at least seven hours.

The findings had nothing to do with light sleepers eating too much, or taking too little exercise, the researchers found.

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