Word: sleeps
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Studies on adult populations have shown that a lack of sleep is correlated with increased levels of a stomach hormone called ghrelin which can stimulate hunger...
While the average child in the study slept 12.3 hours per day, the study found that black and Hispanic children were more likely than white children to receive less than 12 hours of sleep each night...
...effects of sleep deprivation were found to be particularly apparent in children who watched more than two hours of television...
Infants who get fewer than 12 hours of sleep a night are more likely to be overweight, according to a recent study by researchers at Harvard Medical School...
...study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, is the first to examine sleep patterns in infants, though much work has been done on the effect of sleep on adults...