The Link Between Sleep and Belly Fat and Liver Disease
A new study published in Sleep Medicine has found that getting less than eight hours of sleep every night could be contributing to visceral fat, dangerous belly fat that has been tied to metabolic disease and insulin resistance. The study suggests that the goal is to get seven to eight hours of sleep a night, with the new research showing one less hour of daily sleep could result in an overall increase of about 12 grams of visceral fat mass. The sleep benefit seems to plateau around eight hours.