Pregnancy tips Could Lack Of Sleep Be Making Kids Gain Too Much Weight?

My daughter is a good sleeper, the only problem is that she never seems to fall asleep until later in the evening. Although many mornings she sleeps late, now that she's in preschool a couple days per week, she can't make up that sleep on those mornings. I've heard that sleep deprivation can lead to a number of problems and it's scary that we live in such a sleep deprived society. Here is an article about how it may lead to weight gain in children:

Sleep Keeps Kids Slim
By Betsy Lievense, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent (www.ivanhoe.com)


From the article:

"Researchers at Northwestern University found that children who get more sleep tend to have a lower body mass index (BMI, a ratio of weight to height) and are less likely to be overweight five years later, than kids who get less sleep.

Sleeping an extra hour a night reduced the chance of being overweight from 36 percent to 30 percent in young children, and from 34 percent to 30 percent in older children.

The study is published in the January/February issue of the journal Child Development."