Being locked up in a room with nothing but a bed and food
Numbers Rule Your World 2013-03-20
Summary:
Imagine you are locked up in a hospital room with a bed and plenty of food. What do you think you'd be doing when you aren't sleeping? *** Well, some researchers (link) discovered that you'd be eating the food. What a surprise. The New York Times then saw it fit to report this result as "Lost Sleep Can Lead to Weight Gain", which isn't as bad as the lead given on the front page of NYTimes.com "To Put on Pounds, Just Sleep Less". Of course, the researchers never proved that sleep deprivation is a cause of obesity. In the original...