Sleep each person needs varies. But in general, healthy adults will be maintained for 16 hours and requires an average of six to eight hours of sleep a night.
Sleep Patterns and Health
It is estimated, lack of sleep affects the balance of ghrelin and leptin in the body. Disturbances in the circulation of the two hormones that affect appetite that makes a person prone to being overweight or obese.
Slightly different at the adam, the case of sleep deprivation cause women more susceptible to weight gain. Researchers in Finland are revealing that sleep problems, such as difficulty falling asleep and awake at night, making the woman's weight tends to go up five pounds.
Poor sleeping habits, according to new research from the Netherlands, also makes damage to the regulation of metabolism. The researchers found that with just over four hours a day, the body's insulin levels fell by 25 percent. Insulin resistance can lead to diabetes type 2 (the inability to use insulin to control glucose from food).
With sleeping for eight hours, the body repair itself from damage caused by stress, ultraviolet rays and other harmful exposures. Naturally, the cells in the body to form protein molecules on the cell body is strengthened when a person sleeps.
Sleeping too little - or too much - will also lead to deposition of fat in the abdomen in those aged under 40 years. Sleep time of less than five hours or more than eight hours can cause the accumulation of abdominal fat to a greater or "visceral" fat. The findings, by researchers in North Carolina, ruled out other causes of fat deposits, such as caloric intake, exercise habits and smoking.