Sleeping naked could cut your risk of diabetes

As adults most of us take our naps very seriously, and now some good research has come up showing we've been right all along! According to Deccan Chronicle, a new study shows that “sleeping in the cold can help you shed pounds because your body’s metabolism speeds up to keep you warm". But not only that, participants of the study also “gained metabolic advantages that could, over time, lessen their risk for diabetes and other metabolic problems.”

According to an international study by the U.S. National Sleep Foundation, and it’s been shown to have all sorts of benefits, one in three adults sleeps in the nude. The report goes on to elaborate that it’s important to keep cool at night as your body temperature needs to drop by about half a degree for you to fall asleep. The brain, driven by your internal body clock, sends messages to the blood vessels to open up and release heat.

 There is an increasing focus on brown fat, a type of tissue in the body that may protect against weight gain. While ordinary body fat piles on when we eat more calories than we burn, brown fat seems to burn excess calories to generate heat.  We know babies have lots of brown fat — they need it to keep warm — but studies have shown there are small amounts in the necks of adults, too. Experts believe that certain activities could switch on this fat, potentially helping to burn calories at a greater rate.  In a U.S. study in the journal Diabetes, researchers found that sleeping in a cold bedroom could activate brown fat in adults.

 According to the report, people who sleep naked have happier love lives, according to a survey of 1,000 British adults by a bedsheet company this year. The study found 57 per cent of nude sleepers were happy with their relationship, compared with 48 per cent of pyjama wearers and 43 per cent of nightie wearers (onesie wearers were just 38 per cent). Sleeping naked is a good strategy for those with body image issues,  Denise Knowles, sex therapist at counselling charity Relate was quoted saying.

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