Childhood Obesity And Sleep Duration Linked

This yawner of a debate lumbers (slumbers?) on.

"'Our analysis of the data shows a clear association between sleep duration and the risk for overweight or obesity in children. The risk declined with more sleep,' said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition."

Note only "association," which is neither proof nor cause and effect.

More crap research.

"'Desirable sleep behavior may be an important low cost means for preventing childhood obesity and should be considered in future intervention studies. Our findings may also have important implications in societies where children do not have adequate sleep due to the pressure for academic excellence and where the prevalence of obesity is rising, such as in many East Asian countries.'"

No.

Desirable eating behavior is an important money-making means for preventing all overweight and obesity, i.e., YOU can make money, lots of money, by eating healthily.

"For the study, Wang, Chen and colleague May A. Beydoun, also a postdoctoral fellow at the Bloomberg School, reviewed 17 published studies on sleep duration and childhood obesity and they analyzed 11 of them in their meta-analysis...

The association between increased sleep and reduced obesity risk was strongly associated with boys, but not in girls."

Ask yourself "Why?"

Answer yourself, "Because the research, researchers and their study are bull."