Previously published in Examiner
Most Montrealers complain they do not get enough sleep. Yet, sleep affects our physical and mental health. Not having enough sleep affects our mood, our stamina, our home-life and career, and our social relationships.
Sleep is an important human function which is essential for good physical health and good mental health. Even though sleep is so important many Montrealers take sleeping for granted. They either sleep too much or more often than not, sleep less than is recommended for good health. Montrealers will catnap rather than sleep, burn the midnight oil studying, play on the computer, or just insist that they are too busy too sleep.
Conditions that affect sleep, our health, and mental health include such topics as nocturnal eating disorder known as night eating syndrome
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Many of us eat late at night, but how many of us know that it is actually a sleep order disease for some people? Night eating syndrome(NES) is a newly defined sleep disorder. It estimated that as much as six million Americans will suffer from night eating syndrome disorder. Night eating syndrome is also known as: nighttime hunger, nocturnal eating, night eating or drinking (syndrome), nocturnal eating (or drinking) syndrome, or the “Dagwood” syndrome. Montrealers will be affected by this disorder as well.
What is night eating?
According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders nocturnal eating is a dyssomnia, which means it happens when the person is awake and cannot fall asleep unless he or she eats. Because of this, Dagwood syndrome is also an extrinsic sleep disorder meaning it occurs outside of sleep.
“Not only is night eating syndrome an eating disorder, but one of mood & sleep as well,” says study author Albert Stunkard, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weight & Eating Disorders Program. Night eating syndrome, may be a combined eating and sleep disorder, but the afflicted are awake when they are eating. In fact, they cannot sleep (insomnia) without eating at night.
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