Sleep more on weekends to reduce
diabetes risk!
It is said that lack of sleep can
increase your risk of diabetes. Now, a new study revealed that catching up on
sleep on the weekend can counteract that heightened diabetes risk.
The new study shows that young people
who are sleep deprived returned to normal after two nights of extended sleep
According to senior study author Esra
Tasali, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago in the US,
“the study shows that young, healthy people who sporadically fail to get
sufficient sleep during the work week can reduce their diabetes risk if they
catch up on sleep during the weekend.”
"In this short-term study, we
found that two long nights spent catching up on lost sleep can reverse the
negative metabolic effects of four consecutive nights of restricted
sleep," Josiane Broussard, assistant research professor at University of
Colorado, Boulder noted.
For the study, the researchers
recruited 19 volunteers, all healthy young men. On one occasion, they were
allowed to sleep normally, spending 8.5 hours in bed for four nights.
On another occasion, the same
volunteers were first sleep deprived, and later they were allowed two nights of
extended sleep, during which they averaged 9.7 hours of sleep.
After four nights of sleep restriction,
the volunteers' insulin sensitivity -- the ability of insulin to regulate blood
sugars -- decreased by 23 percent and their diabetes risk increased by 16
percent.
The new finding, published online in the journal Diabetes
Care, could affect large numbers of people who work long hours.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
20.01.2016
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