Short sleep duration and dietary intake: epidemiologic evidence, mechanisms, and health implications.

ABSTRACT: Links between short sleep duration and obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease may be mediated through changes in dietary intake. This review provides an overview of recent epidemiologic studies on the relations between habitual short sleep duration and dietary intake in adults from 16 cross-sectional studies. The studies have observed consistent associations between short sleep duration and higher total energy intake and higher total fat intake, and limited evidence for lower fruit intake, and lower quality diets. Evidence also suggests that short sleepers may have irregular eating behavior deviating from the traditional 3 meals/d to fewer main meals and more frequent, smaller, energy-dense, and highly palatable snacks at night. Although the impact of short slee

SUBMITTER: Dashti HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4642416 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature