From New York Post · · 50s
Sleep-deprived spouse harms your diet
A study shows your partner's poor sleep affects your eating habits.
In brief
A study shows your partner's poor sleep affects your eating habits. Poor sleep in one partner reduces both partners' efforts to eat healthily. Originally reported by New York Post.
Sleep affects diet
Poor sleep links to unhealthy eating habits for both partners in a study of 204 cohabiting couples.
“People with a sleep-deprived partner were essentially saying they have less confidence in their ability to follow a healthy diet, so they engage in less effort to do so.”
Shared sleep issues
One partner's poor sleep hygiene disrupts both partners' sleep quality and eating routines.
Diet changes happen
Women reported healthier eating habits after the study, while both partners tried to improve their diets.
Study limitations
Self-reported data means the study can't prove poor sleep directly causes unhealthy eating habits.
Joint solutions
Both partners need to work together to improve sleep and food habits for long-term health.
The one thing
Poor sleep in one partner reduces both partners' efforts to eat healthily.
