New research finds that one night of sleep deprivation and six months on a high-fat diet could both impair insulin sensitivity to a similar degree, demonstrating the importance of a good night’s sleep on health. [...]
When the body becomes less sensitive to insulin ... it needs to produce more insulin to keep blood sugar stable. This may eventually lead to Type 2 diabetes, a disease where the body’s insulin response doesn’t work properly and there is too much sugar in the blood.
— obesity.org
Students: take note. Take time to get enough sleep.
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Actually, a high fat diet (low carb) is very good for you. Insulin problems are caused by carbs and sugar (which carbs turn into).
if this were true parenthood would be the primary cause of type II diabetes
I'm going with the endocrinologists.
nobody would be alive to finish arch school if this was true, and then having kids? all dead, all dead....
The title is a bit much. What it means is that sleeping badly has similar effects as poor diet over a period of time. The caveat is that you can just get some sleep and those effects go away whereas you're stuck when you eat poorly for 6 months. What is significant (which they mention in the study) is that it suggests that the insulin effects may operate with a similar mechanism despite coming from very different stimuli.
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