Healthy nonobese adults consumed more calories, gained more weight and experienced an increase in visceral adipose tissue after 14 days of experimental sleep restriction compared with those who slept 9 hours per night, researchers reported.
In a small study, described as the first-ever assessing the effects of sleep curtailment on body fat distribution, the researchers noted that an expansion in abdominal adipose tissue and especially visceral fat deposition occurred only in response to shortened sleep.
“Short sleep appears also to modulate nutritional choices, with sleep-restricted