Too much, too little sleep tied to ill health in CDC study

Too much, too little, no relationship. What's a human to do?

"People who sleep fewer than six hours a night — or more than nine — are more likely to be obese, according to a new government study that is one of the largest to show a link between irregular sleep and big bellies...

Such surveys can't prove cause-effect relationships, so — for example — it's not clear if smoking causes sleeplessness or if sleeplessness prompts smoking, said Charlotte Schoenborn, the study's lead author.

It also did not account for the influence of other factors, such as depression, which can contribute to heavy eating, smoking, sleeplessness and other problems."

Well you can either lose sleep over it, sleep on it or just stay in bed too confused/bummed to get out of it.

Personally, I say don't give a sh** about it and just eat healthily.

That way you can never get fat.