{"id":3070,"date":"2013-11-20T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubcmhac.sites.olt.ubc.ca\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2013-11-20T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:29:49","slug":"sleepy-and-hungry-a-bad-combination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/2013\/11\/20\/sleepy-and-hungry-a-bad-combination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy and Hungry: A Bad Combination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study done on 24 people at UC Berkeley has revealed that people who are sleep-deprived are more likely to select higher calorie foods to eat compared to people who are not sleep-deprived. Not enough sleep was associated with increased activity in the reward centers of the brain, particularly the area of the frontal lobes that deals with self-control. These findings are contrary to the belief that sleep deprivation has something to do with\u00a0increasing\u00a0levels of the hunger-stimulating hormone, ghrelin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ALR4mLy9Lh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2013\/11\/why-the-sleep-deprived-crave-junk-food-and-buy-higher-calorie-foods.php\">Why the Sleep-Deprived Crave Junk Food and Buy Higher Calorie Foods<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Why the Sleep-Deprived Crave Junk Food and Buy Higher Calorie Foods&#8221; &#8212; PsyBlog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2013\/11\/why-the-sleep-deprived-crave-junk-food-and-buy-higher-calorie-foods.php\/embed#?secret=pMqXsoMpUN#?secret=ALR4mLy9Lh\" data-secret=\"ALR4mLy9Lh\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study done on 24 people at UC Berkeley has revealed that people who are sleep-deprived are more likely to select higher calorie foods to eat compared to people who are not sleep-deprived. Not enough sleep was associated with increased activity in the reward centers of the brain, particularly the area of the frontal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1020240,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health-correspondent","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcmhac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}