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Lost Sleep Can Lead to Weight Gain 睡眠不足可能会让人变胖 THE BEST PATH to a healthy weight may be a good night ’ s sleep. 通向健康体重的 最佳途径 ，或许只是一夜好眠而已。 For years researchers have known that adults who sleep less than five or six hours a night are at higher risk of being overweight . Among children, sleeping less than 10 hours a night is associated with weight gain . 多年来，研究人员一直清楚这个事实： 每晚睡眠不足五六个小时的成年人， 其超重风险更高 。 而在儿童中，每晚睡眠不足 10小时也 跟体重增长有关系 。 Now a fascinating new study suggests that the link may be even more insidious than previously thought. Losing just a few hours of sleep a few nights in a row can lead to almost immediate weight gain. 而现在， 一个引人注目的新研究发现， 这种联系也许比此前人们认识到的更为显著： 少几小时睡眠，连续这样数晚，就能导致体重立竿见影地往上窜。  每晚缺 Sleep researchers from the University of Colorado recruited 16 healthy men and women for a two-week experiment tracking sleep, metabolism and eating habits. Nothing was left to chance: the subjects stayed in a special room that allowed researchers to track their metabolism by measuring the amount of oxygen they used and carbon dioxide they produced. Every bite of food was recorded, and strict sleep schedules were imposed. 科罗拉多大学 (University of Colorado) 的睡眠研究人员征召了 16名健康的男性和女性参加为 期两周的试验， 记录他们的睡眠、代谢和饮食习惯。试验没有容下半点含糊之处： 受试者住 在一个特别的房子里， 研究者可以通过测量他们吸入的氧气和呼出的二氧化碳量来追踪记录他们的代谢水平。每吃下去的一口食物都被记录在案，且要严格遵守睡眠时间安排。 The goal was to determine how inadequate sleep over just one week — similar to what might occur when students cram for exams or when office workers stay up late to meet a looming deadline — affects a person ’ s weight, behavior and physiology. 研究人员的目的是发现， 仅仅缺觉一个星期 —— 这种情况跟学生在考前临时抱佛脚， 或者员工为了即将到来的最后期限而赶工差不多 —— 会如何影响一个人的体重、行为和生理机能。 During the first week of the study, half the people were allowed to sleep nine hours a night while the other half stayed up until about midnight and then could sleep up to five hours. Everyone was given unlimited access to food. In the second week, the nine-hour sleepers were then restricted to five hours of sleep a night, while the sleep-deprived