Sleep Loss May Fuel Poor Food Choices

It certainly leads to excuses.

Sleep deprivation impairs regions of the brain involved in making food choices and may lead to unhealthy food choices, results of 2 separate studies suggest.

"We think this is one potential mechanism related to the overall link between sleep deprivation and obesity," Stephanie M. Greer, PhD, from the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory, University of California (UC), Berkeley, who presented 1 of the studies, told Medscape Medical News.

And that is probably all it does.