THE WEIGHT OF wakefulness
A LACK OF SLEEP IS MAKING US FAT. NOT ONLY DOES TIREDNESS SAP OUR GET-UP-AND-GO, IT ALTERS OUR BODIES ON A CHEMICAL LEVEL
How far would you go to beat the battle of the bulge? Be at the gym at 6am? Give up bread, potatoes and pasta? Banish the biscuit barrel and chuck away the chocolate?
Many of us have been there, done that. But the secret to keeping ourselves in shape lies in doing›less›rather than more, or so thinks Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science.›demonstrated a marked link between weight gain and insomnia.
