{"id":7708,"date":"2013-09-05T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candostreet.com\/blog-parents\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2013-09-05T06:01:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:01:39","slug":"lets-get-some-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candostreetny.com\/blog-parents\/lets-get-some-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Sleep, Make Better Food Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat, a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shares about the food choices we tend to make after a poor night’s sleep.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

Burgers, doughnuts, pizza. Stay up real late working or studying, and your body seems to crave them. Carrots and apples, not so much. Why is that?<\/p>\n

\"sleep\"<\/a>At the University of California, Berkeley, Matthew Walker measured people\u2019s food choices and imaged their brain activity after a night\u2019s sleep and after a night with no sleep. He found people preferred junk food after the sleepless night, and their sleep-deprived brains showed less capacity to make good-for-you choices and more I-wanna choices.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a shift in the behavioral choices that people are making, and that seems to be co-occurring with those changes in brain activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, if you get enough sleep, you may choose better and eat more healthfully.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

The study, which appeared in the journal Nature Communications, was supported by the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n

Learn more at healthfinder.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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