Body weight, sleep, and food choices

Abstract

Getting the proper amount of sleep is important for our health and, based on the research to date, it seems clear that the proper amount of sleep is associated with maintaining a healthy body weight. Furthermore, lack of sleep can lead to poor food choices and, thus, possibly to weight gain. When we think about health,we need to think about it holistically, with the proper amount of sleep, food, and activity. Hippocrates put it so well when he said, "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.