The less you sleep, the more likely you are to become fat.
That’s the weighty conclusion of a Columbia University study that found a correlation between the risk of obesity and the amount of sleep a person gets nightly.
Specifically, people between the ages of 32 and 59 who slept four hours or less per night were 73 percent more likely to be obese than those who slept between seven and nine hours.
By comparison, people who slumbered for five hours had a 50 percent higher risk of being heavy than those who were getting a full night.