Category: Poor Diet Quality

Published on June 9, 2016 A study suggests that among healthy adults with a habitual sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours, late sleep timing was associated with higher fast food consumption and lower vegetable intake, particularly among men, as well as lower physical activity. Results show that late sleep timing is associated with lower body mass index and is not associated with total caloric intake; however, it remains associated with poorer diet quality, particularly fast food, vegetable and dairy intake. “Our results help us further understand how sleep timing in addition to duration may affect obesity risk,” says principal …