The impact of short sleep on food reward processes in adolescents.

This study provides evidence that restricting adolescents' sleep opportunity to 6.5 hr (compared to sleeping a healthy amount) increases the appeal and reinforcing value of a variety of foods, but this may occur only under protracted short sleep. Increased food reward may be one mechanism linking chronically shortened sleep with risk of obesity in adolescence. PMID: 32379383 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32379383?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Sleep Research - May 6, 2020 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Duraccio KM, Krietsch KN, Zhang N, Whitacre C, Howarth T, Pfeiffer M, Beebe DW Tags: J Sleep Res Source Type: research