Our Time Desk:
While there’s loads of evidence linking sleep disorders to anorexia and bulimia, there have only been a few studies on our midnight cravings.
A new study published in the journal Sleep, conducted at the University of Chicago Medical Center, by neuroscientist, Erin Hanlon had 14 healthy subjects divided into 2 groups at their Lab. The first group was sleep deprived while the other got their regular hours of sleep; they were woken at crazy hours and schedule to be served a buffet style meal. It was noted that the first group ate about 400 calories more than the second, mostly in snacks.
Frank Scheer, a chronobiologist at Harvard Medical Scholl has commented that the study fits with the brain imaging scans of sleep deprived people.