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Parents should encourage obese children to sleep more, as a simple way to help them lose weight, say experts.
With each additional hour of sleep, the risk of a child being overweight or obese drops by nine per cent, concludes a study of studies by a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in the journal Obesity.
"Our analysis of the data shows a clear association between sleep duration and the risk for overweight or obesity in children. The risk declined with more sleep," says Dr Youfa Wang, senior author. The association between increased sleep and reduced obesity risk was strongest in boys.
"Desirable sleep behaviour may be an important low cost means for preventing childhood obesity and should be considered in future intervention studies. Our findings may also have important implications in societies where children do not have adequate sleep due to the pressure for academic excellence and where the prevalence of obesity is rising, such as in many East Asian countries."
"The influence of sleep quality on obesity risk is another important area where future research is needed," adds Dr Xiaoli Chen, lead author of the study, which reviewed 17 published studies on sleep duration and childhood obesity.
The recommended amount of daily sleep varied between studies and with children's age. It is recommended that children under age five should sleep for 11 hours or more per day, children age 5 to 10 should sleep for 10 hours or more per day, and children over age 10 should sleep at least 9 hours per day.
The results of the analysis showed that children with the shortest sleep duration had a 92 per cent higher risk of being overweight or obese compared to children with longer sleep duration. For children under age five, shortest sleep duration meant fewer than nine hours of sleep per day.
For children ages five to 10 it meant fewer than eight hours of sleep per day and less than seven hours of sleep per day for children over 10.
One analysis of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children in the Nineties, which tracked 13,000 British children as they grew up, concluded that poor sleep at 30 months predicts obesity at the age of seven years.
The effect of chronic sleep deprivation on the brain's food-seeking circuitry is what seems to be influencing obesity as well as raising the risk of insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease.
Source:telegraph
With each additional hour of sleep, the risk of a child being overweight or obese drops by nine per cent, concludes a study of studies by a team at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, published in the journal Obesity.
"Our analysis of the data shows a clear association between sleep duration and the risk for overweight or obesity in children. The risk declined with more sleep," says Dr Youfa Wang, senior author. The association between increased sleep and reduced obesity risk was strongest in boys.
"Desirable sleep behaviour may be an important low cost means for preventing childhood obesity and should be considered in future intervention studies. Our findings may also have important implications in societies where children do not have adequate sleep due to the pressure for academic excellence and where the prevalence of obesity is rising, such as in many East Asian countries."
"The influence of sleep quality on obesity risk is another important area where future research is needed," adds Dr Xiaoli Chen, lead author of the study, which reviewed 17 published studies on sleep duration and childhood obesity.
The recommended amount of daily sleep varied between studies and with children's age. It is recommended that children under age five should sleep for 11 hours or more per day, children age 5 to 10 should sleep for 10 hours or more per day, and children over age 10 should sleep at least 9 hours per day.
The results of the analysis showed that children with the shortest sleep duration had a 92 per cent higher risk of being overweight or obese compared to children with longer sleep duration. For children under age five, shortest sleep duration meant fewer than nine hours of sleep per day.
For children ages five to 10 it meant fewer than eight hours of sleep per day and less than seven hours of sleep per day for children over 10.
One analysis of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children in the Nineties, which tracked 13,000 British children as they grew up, concluded that poor sleep at 30 months predicts obesity at the age of seven years.
The effect of chronic sleep deprivation on the brain's food-seeking circuitry is what seems to be influencing obesity as well as raising the risk of insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease.
Source:telegraph
may be I'll sleep more though I am not a kid,but an oldman