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Obesity: Go to bed! (U.S. News and World Report)

People who don’t sleep very long are more likely to be overweight. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that sleep deprivation makes you fatââ?¬â?it could be that both are caused by being a couch potato, by eating badly, or by something else entirely. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Wisconsinââ?¬â??Madison looked at how sleep deprivation affects levels of hormones that regulate appetite.