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Topic: Childhood Obesity News - Good night's sleep reduces childhood obesity risk: study - Tehran Times

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Children lacking enough shut-eye face a greater risk of becoming obese than kids who get a good night’s sleep. Each extra hour of sleep cuts a child’s risk of becoming overweight or obese by nine percent, according to an analysis of epidiomogical studies by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. By contrast, children who got the least sleep had a 92 percent higher change of being overweight or obese than children who slept enough, said the study published in the journal Obesity. The risk declined with more sleep,”" said Youfa Wang, a senior author of the study. Some research recommends that children under five years old sleep 11 hours or more a day, while children age five to 10 should get 10 or more hours of sleep, and children older than 10 should sleep at least nine hours. Read Childhood Obesity

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