STUDY: Poor sleep habits lead to poor nutrition

Teens who sleep less than eight hours on weeknights tend to eat more fatty foods than those who doze longer, researchers have found.

The sleep study involved 240 Cleveland teens ages 16 to 19.

Teens who slept less than eight hours on weeknights consumed 2.2 percentage points more calories from fats and 3.0 percentage points fewer calories from carbohydrates than teens who slept eight hours or more, after taking factors like age and sex into account, researchers said in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Sleep.

The changes in diet patterns offer insight into why less sleep has been linked with obesity in previous studies, said the study’s senior author, Dr. Susan Redline, a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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