Losing sleep is a stress factor, stress raises cortisol, cortisol depresses leptin, the appettite control hormone.

These are facts that nutritionists have proposed for quite some time, and a recent study confirms.  For  more detailed information about the effects of stress, and how to counteract them, read my article.

What concerns me about the press reports on this new study, however, is the connection they are making between insomnia and obesity, seeming to suggest that if it were not for the nationwide aepidemic of sleep deprivation, there would be no fat people.

As if a healthy diet had nothing to do with it - First Amendment be damned, this is an extreme disservice to our Nation's health, and an insult to our intelligence!