Sleep Eating Can Make You Fat
Most Montrealers complain they do not get enough sleep. Yet, sleep affects are physical and mental health. Not having enough sleep affects our mood, our stamina, our home-life and career, and our social relationships.
Sleep is an important human function which is essential for good physical health and good mental health. Even though sleep is so important many Montrealers take sleeping for granted. They either sleep too much or more often than not, sleep less than is recommended for good health. Montrealers will catnap rather than sleep, burn the midnight oil studying, play on the computer, or just insist that they are too busy too sleep.
Conditions that affect sleep, our health, and mental health include such topics as nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder known as sleep eating. For help in the Montreal area for sleep disorders in Montreal click here:
Mount Sinai Hospital Sleep Center
Sleep Eating Syndrome: Causes and Treatment
Causes for sleep-related eating
Sleep-related eating disorder can be triggered by stress. It also can be triggered by autoimmune hepatitis. Some dieters binge eat during their sleep. Sometimes it is triggered by the withdrawal from alcohol and drugs. It can also be triggered by the following sleep disorders: narcolepsy, irregular sleep-wake rhythm, periodic limb movement disorder, sleep-related dissociative disorders, and obstructive sleep apnea.
Risk factors for sleep-eating syndrome
Sleep-eating syndrome risks described above such as self-injury and or causing a fire, are among the potential dangers, but there are other risk factors such as gaining weight, and insomnia that can lead to heart attack, diabetes, depression, stroke and high blood pressure.
- Who are at risk for nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED)?
- About 1.5 percent of the population are said to be afflicted with nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED)
- Women are more affected than men
- Sleepwalkers are often affected
- A possible hereditary link
- Sufferers of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are often affected by nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED). They represent 10 to 15 percent of the 1.5 percent of people who are afflicted with sleep-eating syndrome.
Younger women are more at risk because they are often the victims of anorexia and bulimia. The symptoms usually started in the early 20's; but these women can have sleep-eating syndrome in later years as well. The new occurrences are often then triggers by stress.
Sources:
http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/sleep-disorders/archives/parasomnias_sleepeating.htm
Published by Carol Roach
Carol Roach holds a masters in counselling psychology. She worked as a therapist at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal before becoming a professional writer.Carol is the author of the book Picking Up The Piece... View profile
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