Monday, October 23, 2006

Excess weight is frequently connected with the shortage of sleep

The problem of children's obesity in many instances is connected with the fact, how long child will sleep. As reports today Greco- Cypriot press, the researchers from the British Bristol university came to this conclusion.

In the children, who sleep less than 8 it is hour in a 24 hour period, differently are manufactured the hormones, which control appetite, counts Shakhrad Of takheri, the representative of the group of scientists from the Bristol university. In this case children's sleep becomes increasingly shorter because of the television sets, the cell phones and the computers, which render to the young generation the exciting action. Researchers consider that all latest achievements of technology must be removed from the rooms, where children live.

However, many parents in Cyprus are not agreeable with the recommendations of British researchers. To remove technology from the children's is impossible, they count. Contemporary children do not think of themselves without the technical entertainments: the Internet, text communications on the cell phone also of survey telecast.

In the opinion of the chief children's pediatrician on the island Of savvasa of Savvas, about the interrelation between the excess weight and chronic nedosypom known long ago. "those people, who will sleep less than 8 it is hour in a 24 hour period, more frequently have excess kilograms, if we compare with those, who rest more than this period. Sleep plays the leading role in the development of obesity; however, this illness appears as a result of the entire complex of different factors ", he said. Savva added that the best method for dealing with the unnecessary kilograms - correct nourishment and the active means of life, which assumes valuable sleep.

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