This article seems very interesting. I found this article on February 5, 2011. The click on the link above and check the article out for yourself.
Important Points of the Article
* When people slept normally, they expended 96 more calories than they did on days when they were making up for lost sleep. So a night spent awake can cause the body to burn fewer calories — which could be a recipe for gaining weight.
*when a person sleeps, his body uses energy to do important jobs — like making connections in the brain, regulating hormones and helping the body’s natural defense system. When a person stays awake, he takes energy away from those important functions,
*The scientists measured sleep patterns and energy use of the participants by monitoring brain activity and tracking breathing patterns. By studying the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide as the people breathed, the researchers could chart energy usage.
This article is based off a study done on energy conservation in your sleep. This study is the first time scientists have precisely measured the amount of energy the body uses over a 24-hour period. So if the human body burns more calories while awake than while asleep, why not just stay awake to lose weight fast? Actually, such a weight-loss plan would backfire: Previous studies connect long-term sleep deprivation to obesity, which is the condition of being very overweight, and to other dangerous health problems. This also suggests that the body’s energy processes during normal sleep are different than those used during recovery. And the body, while recovering, doesn't use as much energy as when it is well-rested. When people slept normally, they expended 96 more calories than they did on days when they were making up for lost sleep. So a night spent awake can cause the body to burn fewer calories — which could be a recipe for gaining weight.
The researchers suspect that when a person sleeps, his body uses energy to do important jobs — like making connections in the brain, regulating hormones and helping the body’s natural defense system. When a person stays awake, he takes energy away from those important functions, Kenneth Wright told Science News. “It’s not worth the cost.” This is what the article is about.
This article is important to use. It is a great article to teach students about energy and how energy is converted. The article includes vocab words and their definitions to help the students understand what the students are reading about. The power words or vocab words listed are calorie, oxidation, hormones, metabolism, obesity, and carbon dioxide. I would use this article with students in grades fifth and up. The article is for kids and I would have my class read this article for homework and then write a journal entry about what the students learned from the article and liked from the article. The journal entry has to be at least a page long. The students can include what they found interesting from the article or did not know about before reading the article. In their journal response the students should state how this article incorporates science and what type of science. This is a great article for students to read and I think that my class will enjoy this article and I look forward to reading their journal entries.
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