If you fail to ensure that, your child gets enough sleep then most likely you will also not be able to stop him from putting on extra flab, when he grows up.
These findings form a new study are based on an analysis of around 2,500 children between the ages 0-21. According to this study, obesity level was just 13 per cent among those who rarely had irregular sleeping habits, while this level mounted up to 23 per cent among kids often having problems sleeping.
It becomes quite important to know that how irregular sleep paves the way for obesity among kids when they grow up. Throwing light on sleep-obesity equation study shows that insufficient sleep disturbs our mechanism by suppressing production of the appetite suppressant leptin and increasing levels of the appetite stimulant ghrelin. All these factors, one-way of the other, lead to obesity. Moreover, insufficient sleep often leaves a kid inactive and lazy in the daytime, finally prompting physical inactivity- a key factor behind obesity.
In the present scenario, while trying to make strategy against obesity-rise, we can’t keep a blind eye to kids’ sleeping problems. Because by ensuring healthy sleep for kids, we would somehow give them hope of a future free form obesity threat.
