SLEEP VS OBESITY

                            

A new study has found a strong link between the amount of sleep people get and their risk of becoming obese. 

Research shows that people who get less than 4 hours of sleep a night are 73% more likely to be obese than those who get 7 - 9 hours of rest.  Those who average 5 hours of sleep have  50% greater risk, and those who get 6 hours have 23% more. 

   Logically, one might think the more hours you're awake, the MORE calories you'd burn, but sleep deprivation lowers leptin, a blood protein that surpresses appetite.  It also raises levels of grehlin, a substance that makes people want to eat. 

Leptin good.  Grehlin bad.  Zzzzzzzzzz...

 ~ painting by Marilyn Monroe

Life-
I am of both your directions
Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind
Hanging downward the most
Somehow remaining
those beaded rays have the colours
I've seen in paintings-ah life
they have cheated you

thinner than a cobweb's thread
sheerer than any-

but it did attach itself
and held fast in strong winds
and singed by the leaping hot fires
life-of which at singular times
I am both of your directions-
somehow I remain hanging downward the most
as both of your directions pull me

                                           ~ poetry by Marilyn Monroe