The impact of short sleep on food reward processes in adolescents

Abstract

Restricting sleep leads to greater food consumption in school-aged youth (Hart et al., 2013) and greater consumption by adolescents of foods that have a high glycaemic index and load (Beebe et al., 2013), without compensatory increases in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (Van Dyk et al., 2018). However, the mechanism driving the increase in food intake following short sleep remains unclear. Adolescence is an important developmental time with respect to eating behaviour. In addition to establishing long-term dietary patterns, adolescents are much more independent in their food choices than are younger children, so their internal motivational feelings

Systematic Metabolic Profiling of Mice with Sleep‐Deprivation

“…[2,3] The "sleep debt" caused by chronic sleep deprivation (SD) can be more harmful than people think. [4] SD can cause depression, fear, and other negative emotions, [5,6] reduce movement and balance skills, [7,8] cause memory and cognitive impairments, [9][10][11] increase food attraction and cause obesity, [12,13] diabetes, [14] cardiovascular diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, [15][16][17] and bone diseases, [18] interfere with immune function, [19,20] and cause an increased risk of cancer, [21] and death. [15] The socioeconomic implications of SD are much more significant than we expected.…”