Lack of sleep and diabetes risk – but diet may have a preventative effect

Sleep has become a bit of an obsession and we wonder how much sleep we need. A large study compared participants’ sleep duration and risk of type 2 diabetes. The researchers also assessed whether the participants’ diets could reduce the risk of short sleepers.

Host: Dr. Norman Swan

guest:

Dr. Diana Noga

Researcher, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences

Uppsala University, Sweden

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