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Louis J. Aronne, M.D.:
It turns out that people who sleep less have an increase in levels of a hormone called ghrelin and a reduction in another hormone called leptin.

Dr. Louis Aronne, author of the book The Skinny…

And when you take those two hormones and do that to them your body weight goes up - you have greater appetite and no sense of fullness. It's long been observed that shift workers have difficulty losing weight and may in fact continue to gain weight.

Dr. Aronne has been the director of the comprehensive weight control program at New York Presbyterian Hospital since 1986. He says typical high-fat junk food contributes to weight gain in ways you may not realize.

The evidence now is that those types of foods cause a breakdown in the weight regulation mechanisms that would make you eat more. So the more you eat the hungrier you get and people who've been on a diet know just what I'm talking about.

And the whole concept of portion size contributes to the problem of weight gain.

Let's look at soda - back in the fifties the average soda started out at seven then went to twelve ounces and sixteen ounces and recently I heard an ad for a thirty-two ounce soda. You look at the number of calories there, it's increased astronomically.

Tomorrow, some simple effective strategies to control weight - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.