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    Stop absorbing so much light!

    Posts: 3,942 Member
    edited February 23 in Health and Weight Loss
    Exposure to light whilst sleeping linked to obesity

    http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/health/light-exposure-linked-to-obesity-477575.html#ixzz33BVwfqj1

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    • Posts: 2,210 Member
      Is that a euphemism for eating too many calories?
    • Posts: 620 Member
      I work 11p-7, so I sleep during the day. I've never slept at night my entire life.
    • Posts: 3 Member
      Is thos exposure to a particular kind of light? Like the light that comes on when you open the fridge? ????????????????
      Seriously, presume it is linked to lack of sleep? This can affect hormones linked to fat storage like cortisol and melatonin, so makes sense
    • Posts: 45 Member
      I don't know about a euphemism for eating too many calories, but I imagine that absorbing too much of the light that is emitted from fridges when the doors are opened can be quite fattening :)
    • Posts: 7,436 Member
      humans photosynthesise now....? so exposure to light causes their cells to produce glucose which is then stored as fat....







      serious answer: lack of sleep can cause excessive hunger, so if exposure to light at night leads to lower quality sleep, then maybe that leads to overeating the next day.
    • Posts: 1,380 Member
      The light has gone on my fridge, so if I don't replace it will that help me lose weight? :tongue:
    • Posts: 1,776 Member
      In other news, Nicholas Cage movies cause drowning

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    • Posts: 18,934 Member
      Sour cream kills motorcyclists.

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    • Posts: 1,372 Member
      In other news, Nicholas Cage movies cause drowning

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      Good one

      I also like this one

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    • Posts: 982 Member
      Energy in ..... Energy Out :-p

      Also in the news ...... The increased access to knowledge (via the interweb) has significantly reduced the Average IQ of the Human Race...
    • Posts: 3,942 Member
      Energy in ..... Energy Out :-p

      So the energy from the lightbulb is converted to calories? Dagnammit!
    • Posts: 982 Member
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      So the energy from the lightbulb is converted to calories? Dagnammit!

      That's why you need to go Low Energy .... unless you're bulking for a comp.
    • Posts: 1,974 Member
      Then us around the Arctic circle or in close proximity are absolutely screwed during the summer months. The sun is up all night or nearly all night.
    • Posts: 613 Member
      Then us around the Arctic circle or in close proximity are absolutely screwed during the summer months. The sun is up all night or nearly all night.

      Just don't sleep outdoors and you'll be OK :)
    • Posts: 3,942 Member
      Then us around the Arctic circle or in close proximity are absolutely screwed during the summer months. The sun is up all night or nearly all night.

      Suddenly, it all becomes clear.

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    • Posts: 4,899 Member
      My insomnia is making me fat
    • Posts: 1,311 Member
      Damn that daylight for making me fat!
    • Posts: 24,208 Member
      My insomnia is making me fat

      Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
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      Well, it might not be helping in the cortisol/insulin feedback loop.

      I'm also growing tusks
    • Posts: 1,363 Member
      2 words...blackout curtains.
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
      2 words...blackout curtains.

      And then I can eat what I want and still lose weight, right?
    • Posts: 4,899 Member
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      And then I can eat what I want and still lose weight, right?

      Only if you eat it in 6 small meals a day
    • Posts: 371 Member
      But, isn't opening and closing the refrigerator door exercising?
    • Posts: 21 Member
      Is thos exposure to a particular kind of light? Like the light that comes on when you open the fridge?

      Hahaha, nailed it!

      I live in a village and altho I'm at the front of hte house (where the streetlights are) it's actually pitch black in my bedroom. I'd think my problems are related to all of the horrible meds I've been on for the past like, 6 years! What a bizarre thing, how on earth did they find that out?
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
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      Only if you eat it in 6 small meals a day

      I DO, I DO!! Well.... 'small meals' is relative isn't it?

      I'm off to find a dark room and the smaller one of a 5 litre and 10 litre tub of ice cream
    • Posts: 2,819 Member
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      I DO, I DO!! Well.... 'small meals' is relative isn't it?

      I'm off to find a dark room and the smaller one of a 5 litre and 10 litre tub of ice cream

      Watch it, you may shrink away into nothing if you do that!
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
      But, isn't opening and closing the refrigerator door exercising?

      You just know we will soon be seeing fridge doors that open at the touch of a button, don't you

      I'm old enough to remember when you had to get up and walk 10 feet to turn the TV channel over
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
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      Watch it, you may shrink away into nothing if you do that!

      The weight loss will stop just as soon as someone releases a "Weight gain linked to not enough light' report
    • Posts: 982 Member
      More light would be LIGHTER, surely :-p
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