Relationships among dietary nutrients and subjective sleep, objective sleep, and napping in women
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Objective To describe which dietary nutrient variables are related to subjective and objective habitual sleep and subjective and objective napping.Methods Participants were 459 post-menopausal women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative. Objective sleep was estimated using one week of actigraphy. Subjective sleep was prospectively estimated with a daily sleep diary. Dietary nutrients were calculated from food frequency questionnaires.Results The most significant correlations were with subjective napping, including (from strongest to weakest): total fat, calories, saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, trans fat, water, proline, serine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, valine, cholesterol, leucine, glutamic acid, ash, isoleucine, histidine, sodium, tryptophan, protein, threonine, cystine, methionine, phosphorous, polyunsaturated fat, animal protein, aspartic acid, arginine, lysine, alanine, caffeine, riboflavin, gamma-tocopherol, glycine, retinol, delta-tocopherol, Vitamin D, and selenium. Actigraphic nocturnal sleep duration was negatively associated with total fat, monounsaturated fat, trans fat, saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, calories, gamma-tocopherol, cholesterol, and alpha-tocopherol-eq.Conclusions Actigraphic total sleep time was negatively associated with intake of fats. Subjective napping, which may be a proxy for subjective sleepiness, was significantly related to fat intake as well as intake of meat.
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Individuals with insomnia may be at increased CVD risk through poor diet, as subjective and objective sleep has been associated with dietary macronutrient and micronutrient composition.
“individuals with insomnia may be at increased CVD risk through poor diet, as subjective and objective sleep has been associated with dietary macronutrient and micronutrient composition(143).”
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Both short and long sleep are predictive of poorer dietary intake.
“With regard to dietary intake, both short and long sleep are predictive of poorer dietary intake [23, 24].”
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In a study of 459 postmenopausal women using one week of wrist actigraphy, sleep duration was negatively associated with amount of fat and calories consumed even after adjusting for BMI and physical activity.
“A study of 459 postmenopausal women used one week of wrist actigraphy to estimate sleep duration and found that sleep duration was negatively associated with amount of fat and calories consumed even after adjusting for BMI and physical activity [173].”
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At a specific level of BMI and physical activity, a woman who sleeps less consumes more calories, particularly from fat, on average than a woman sleeping more.
“These data indicate that at a specific level of BMI and physical activity, a woman who sleeps less consumes more calories, particularly from fat, on average than a woman sleeping more.”
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- Authors
- Grandner, M. A., Kripke, D. F., Naidoo, N., & Langer, R. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Geisinger Health System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Grandner, Michael A.
- Venue
- Sleep Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 180-184
- ISSN
- 1389-9457 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2819566
- OpenAlex
- W1989488038
- Cited by
- 219
- References
- 64
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- FWCI
- 8.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Sleep Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG012364)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH068545)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Keywords
- dietary nutrients, sleep, napping, postmenopausal women, actigraphy, sleep duration, subjective sleepiness, dietary fat intake, saturated fat, trans fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fat, protein intake, vitamin D, selenium, gamma-tocopherol, alpha-tocopherol, caffeine, meat consumption
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Diet, Dietary Fats, Female, Humans, Meat, Middle Aged, Nutritional Status, Sleep, Sleep Stages, Vegetables, Vitamin D, Actigraphy
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