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Why sleep disorders affect our body weight
More and more studies associate the weight gain to sleep loss. Experts recommend that adults sleep between 7 and 9 hours per night to stabilize a healthy body weight. Why should we sleep to maintain a healthy weight? One theory is that lack of sleep disrupts hormones such as leptin and insulin, that regulate appetite and body weight. But an appetite that goes awry and benchmarks to manage the weight disappear, it can grow.

Another scientific explanation suggests that deprivation of sleep leaves us too tired to exercise. It is well known that to lose weight and stabilize the weight lost, it does not follow a balanced diet and healthy, we must also exercise regularly (4 or 5 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time).
Moreover, as lack of sleep can disturb our mood (making us uncomfortable or irritable for example), we tend to look to food for our spirits up. We eat when our emotions, without being able to control our portions, and this can cause weight gain.
Aerobic Exercise
What is aerobic exercise?
Aerobic exercise is called the one for whose realization requires a continuous demand for oxygen to the body, so that the muscle mainly used as fuel our fat stores. Aerobic exercises are those that involve large muscle mass (legs, buttocks, lower back?), With a long period of work and a moderate intensity. Examples include aerobics, brisk walking, jogging, skiing, swimming, bicycling background, dancing and weight training monitored.
Benefits of aerobic exercise
The periodic and continuous aerobic exercise has positive effects on our cardiovascular system and helps reduce body fat, provided they follow the same time a proper diet to lose weight.
There is also evidence that after aerobic exercise, fat metabolism is increased, so that once the meeting, the body tends to burn more calories, preferably from body fat even at rest.