Fight diabetes in your sleep By Pure Matters The connection
between sleep and blood sugar is solid. A growing stack of
medical studies shows that a good night's sleep not only makes
you feel refreshed and energetic, it can also help keep blood
sugar under better control. When sleep researcher James
Gangwisch, PhD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia
University in New York City, analyzed the health and lifestyle
habits of 8,992 women and men, he found that those who averaged
five or fewer hours of sleep a night were twice as likely to
develop type 2 diabetes as those who got seven to eight hours.
(Getting nine or more hours of shut-eye also raised risk;
researchers suspect it's due to poor-quality sleep.) Researchers
from the University at Buffalo report that people who sleep less
than six hours per night may be four and a half times more
likely to develop pre-diabetes than those who get six to eight
hours per night. The study followed 1,500 people for six years.
Never Too Late to Get Better Sleep