Sketching. Discover - Recent Activity. Sleep and childhood obesity. As we continue hitting the Top 10 list of culprits of childhood obesity, we move on to number 6 -- less sleep.
Over the past several years, several research study results have emerged stating the interesting notion that they seem to have found a connection between the amount of sleep that you get and a tendency toward obesity. According to a study done in 2008 by researchers at Johns Hopkins, the results showed that children with the shortest sleep duration (less then 9, 8 or 7 hours per day depending on age groups) had a high of 92% risk of being overweight or obese compared with those with those with longer sleep times. PowerPoint Designers - Ethos3 Communications.