Sleep problems are associated with binge eating in women

Abstract

Objective We examined the association among current self-reported sleep problems, lifetime binge eating, and current obesity in women from the Swedish Twin study of Adults: Genes and Environment study Method Logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate these associations in 3,790 women aged 20-47 years. Results Binge eating was reported by 244 (6.4%) women and was positively associated with not getting enough sleep (p < .015), sleeping poorly (p < .001), problems falling asleep (p < .001), feeling sleepy during work or free time (p < .001), and disturbed sleep (p < .001). These same sleep variables, as well as napping and being a night person, were also significantly associated with obesity. The associations between binge eating and sleep remained after accounting for obesity. Discussion This investigation offers empirical support for an independent association between sleep problems and binge eating, which is likely due to complex psychological, biological, neuroendocrine, and metabolic factors.

Comparison of obese adults with poor versus good sleep quality during a functional neuroimaging delay discounting task: A pilot study

“…Previous research by Trace and colleagues (2012) found that self-reported lack of sleep, poor quality sleeping, difficulty falling asleep, and daytime sleepiness predicted the endorsement of a lifetime history of binge eating among adults enrolled in the Swedish Twin Study of Adults: Genes and Environment study. In the current study we did not compare participants who endorsed binge eating to those who did not on sleep quality variables, but rather found no differences between binge eating symptomatology for good and poor quality sleepers.…”

“…The second scale assesses disinhibition in relation to uncontrolled over eating and the final scale assesses perceived hunger. Because both binge eating and night eating behavior have been associated with poor sleep quality (Rogers et al, 2006; Trace et al, 2012), the Gormally Binge Eating Scale (GBES) (Gormally et al, 1982), and the Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ) (Allison et al, 2008) were also administered. The GBES is a 16-item questionnaire used to assess the presence of binge eating behavior indicative of an eating disorder and which frequently co-occur with impulsivity.…”

An examination of the relationship between binge eating disorder and insomnia symptoms

“…Binge eating refers to eating an abnormally large amount of food in a relatively short time while experiencing a sense of loss of control. Evidence from nonclinical samples suggests that binge eating is associated with sleep difficulties (Trace et al, ). However, to date, only two studies have examined sleep difficulties in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for BED.…”

Upregulation of Gene Expression in Reward-Modulatory Striatal Opioid Systems by Sleep Loss

“…In fact, recent results indicate that this 'snacking' is not entirely explained by changes in peripheral hunger-or satietymodulating hormones (Markwald et al, 2013), implicating central reward-modulatory systems such as the ENK system identified here. Furthermore, poor sleep is associated with reduced dietary restraint (Markwald et al, 2013) and binge eating (Trace et al, 2012), both of which may stem from altered central opioid function; for example, central m-opioid signaling is implicated in food bingeing (Nathan and Bullmnore, 2009). Similarly, striatal ENK changes could also contribute to bingeing in specific disorders such as night eating syndrome and sleep-related eating disorder, both of which are characterized by sleep disruption (Vinai et al, 2012).…”