Like what Russell Foster, a circadian neuroscience professor at the University of Oxford has said - that humans are such arrogant species who deliberately override the clock to do more things.

Over-eating is the result of having a lack of sleep. Scientists revealed that when sleep-deprived, a person will compensate the body with additional food during the day.

British researchers found out that when deprived of sleep, people tend to add in 385 calories a day more. Easy to grab snack usually constitute these calories, according to Daily Mail.

Staying awake longer without physical much activities is worst that sleeping in full and not exercising.  The King College London researchers explained - that hormones are alerted when the body lacks sleep.

Dr. Gerda Pot added: Continued sleep deprivation and overeating results to excessive weight gain. The imbalance between calories and expenditure is the cause of obesity.

When the body clock is disturbed, hormones can't figure it out what's happening. The leptin tells us when full, and ghrelin, the opposite. It tells us when hungry.

26 sleep-deprived adults took part in a study which concludes that the brain part responsible for recognizing reward responded abnormally and went overboard when food was in sight.

Haya Al Khatib, is certain that sleep is one of the first three elements along with diet and exercise that are essential to one's health, according to his research.  

Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, Manchester and Surrey universities campaigned against undermining sleep and made sure to educate students that sleep is essential to our healthy existence, echoes Press Reader.