Get good sleep and drink water.
Two of the simplest pieces of advice that can go a really long way for your mental and physical health.
Poor Sleep Gives You the Munchies, Study Says
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#22Is the reverse likely also true: munchies will give you poor sleep?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the title does say "you"...
It's the informal generic "you". More formally it'd be "Poor Sleep Gives One the Munchies, Study Says".
Then the strawman-generator would just move the goalposts.
"Well, it says 'one'; that's a small number out of all the people in the study."
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#24Poor sleep results in stress, and to relieve stress, eating is a good remedy. Good in the sense that it seems to work, but it's not healthy. Doing a short workout is probably a lot healthier, but well, you're tired, and doing a workout is not high on the list for most of us.
During sleep is also when your body prepares fat / food to convert into blood sugar.
You literally get tired at the end of the day, when you run out of energy that's easily convertible to blood sugar, so your blood sugar levels start dropping, making you tired.
If you don't get enough sleep at night, your body doesn't have enough time to prep your food / fat for conversion into blood sugar. As a result, your blood sugar starts dropping way too early in the day.
Since your blood sugar is dropping too far, but its too early to go to sleep, your body looks for other solutions, basically: "Get your blood sugar up now!" So you feel a desire to eat, and often, foods your body associates with either high amounts of calories and simple sugars.
Hence, munchies. And weight gain.
Source: I'm hypoglycemic, this is my life. Slight disclaimers as to the specifics of the above, but the processes described are correct.
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#25I would imagine that in some cases this eventually leads to obesity, which then becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Those with obesity are more likely to have sleep apnea, which disturbs sleep even further.
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#26I thought this was understood for a long time. One of the TOP pieces of advice for anyone wanting to lose weight has, as far as I can remember, been to get adequate amounts of sleep.
It has. And for overweight people with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, it is recommended they treat the sleep disorder before attempting weight loss, because then weight loss becomes easier.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your personal anecdote. Unfortunately, it is fallacious to try and generalize it to the entire population.
That's true but it's also true that studies like this one, which are true on average of the population, are often not true for each individual. It's worth pointing out that it doesn't apply to everyone.
Yes, but pointing out that it may not apply to everyone should not start with the sentence "That's not true."
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#28I thought this was understood for a long time. One of the TOP pieces of advice for anyone wanting to lose weight has, as far as I can remember, been to get adequate amounts of sleep.
The fact that lack of sleep correlates with obesity has been known for a long time, but this study is about an underlying mechanism that might explain that correlation.
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#29Is the reverse likely also true: munchies will give you poor sleep?
Is that really the reverse?
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#30I would imagine that in some cases this eventually leads to obesity, which then becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Those with obesity are more likely to have sleep apnea, which disturbs sleep even further.
Mercifully, the cycle ends with the eternal sleep of death.