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Hunger is no longer a third world problem. Wealthy countries are facing the fact that an ever-growing number of their citizens are food insecure. Imagine opening your refrigerator and finding it empty. Imagine opening your kitchen cabinets and having no food. Sadly, that’s the reality for 50 million United States citizens; they don’t know where their next meal is coming from. That includes over 15 million children and 3 million senior citizens. In Canada, food banks are assisting more people than ever before – 867,948 in March 2010 in a country of roughly 35 million. Thirty-eight percent of these are children.

Still – wired, overworked or not, we need to sleep. Requirements vary from person to person. According to national sleep studies, most healthy adults need at least 8 hours of sleep to function best. Sleep studies indicate, in addition to the aforementioned ‘bad’ things that can happen to sleep deprived people, those who average less than 5 hours sleep per night are 73% more likely to be obese. Lack of sleep impacts the balance of hormones (ghrelin and leptin) in the body that affect appetite.

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