Too much light at night at night may lead to obesity, study finds

Monday, October 11, 2010 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Persistent exposure to light at night may lead to weight gain, even without changing physical activity or eating more food, according to new research in mice. Researchers found that mice exposed to a relatively dim light at night over eight weeks had a body mass gain that was about 50 percent more than other mice that lived in a standard light-dark cycle.

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