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How Excess Weight Affects Sleep
Here's a guide to understanding the link between sleep and excess weight. If you're overweight or obese, you are not alone – you're among nearly 130 million other U.S. adults. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death and is closely linked to conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, gout, asthma, and gum disease. WebMD has created a weight loss clinic to addresses this public health epidemic.
The WebMD Weight Loss Clinic starts with an in-depth assessment of your personal goals, your eating habits, and your food preferences. Then we create a balanced, easy-to-follow meal plan that includes the foods you love -- so you'll stick with it, and achieve your weight loss goals. |
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Featured Articles on Sleep Disorders:
Can't Shed Those
Pounds?
To lose weight seems to be the number one resolution each new year. However, nearly 90% of these resolutions meet with either little or no success. Some people even gain weight instead. Most people never know there may be a very simple reason why: They don't sleep well.
The Dream Diet: Losing Weight While You Sleep
Lose weight while you sleep. It sounds like something you'd hear on a late night infomercial -- just around the time you are reaching for that bag of cookies because, well, you can't sleep.
Less Sleep Could Mean More Weight
If your New Year's resolution includes losing some weight, it's a safe bet that exercising more is high on your list of priorities. But if your plans include skipping some sleep to get in those trips to the gym, you could be undermining your weight loss plan before you get started.
Sleep Loss Feeds Appetite
America's hectic lifestyle, fueled by sleep loss, is feeding the obesity epidemic, according to new research. This week, two studies address this phenomenon -- building on earlier research pointing to the same conclusion - that sleep loss "brings about physiologic changes in the hormonal signals that promote hunger and, perhaps thereby, obesity," writes Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, in his editorial in Annals in Internal Medicine.
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