There are suggestions in recent research that lack of sleep can be associated with increased risk of some cancers, heart disease and diabetes, as well as obesity. Our vital hormonal systems regulate and rest the body at night so our sleep patterns are vital to our wellbeing during the day.
The National Sleep Foundation in America has revealed that sleep controls the levels of both the hormone that makes the body think it needs more food leptin (sleep keeps its levels up) and ghrelin, the one that drives the appetite (sleep drives its levels down). So lack of sleep can lead to obesity as studies have shown that lack of sleep can lead the body to believe that it is short of up to 900 calories per day.
But it’s more than that. A natural health site in Australia turns tiredness and a diet based on sugary foods into a vicious circle.
We feel tired, we eat sugary foods as a pick me up and then, when we come down from the sugar rush, we feel tired again… so we eat more sugary foods.
And not only do we then put on weight, but that diet can also be responsible for other health symptoms which are related to yeast infections and thrush in men and women.
The yeast microbes feed on the excess sugar in our bloodstream and proliferate, spreading throughout the body and infesting different areas to produce skin complaints, bad breath, digestive difficulties, toe nail rot and genital discomfort.
I know that the less I sleep and the more tired I get the faster I add unwanted pounds.
Don’t need any ‘yeast infection no more’ stuff though. lol
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LOL @Inferno, it’s not compulsory! :P