Healthy Living
Are Your Sleep Patterns Making You Fat?
Same time to bed, same time to rise makes a woman healthy...and trim?
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When Brigham Young University researchers looked at the snooze patterns of 330 students, they found that those with the most consistent lights-out and wake-up times had nearly 6% less body fat than those with the most erratic habits.
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But you don't have to follow the plan to the minute: A one-hour window is OK. And at bedtime, aim for 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 hours of shut-eye.
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