Finally! A study that not only comes through with the goods, it has good goods!

Just when I was complaining about wasteful research, I come across fun stuff.

AARP's health page features results from the Case Western Reserve University that seems to indicate that not getting enough sleep can make you fat.

This sixteen-year study (ha!) of around 70,000 women (ha!) in their middle years found that, "those who slept five hours or less each night were more likely to gain a significant amount of weight than those who slept seven hours."

Sleeping less probably affects the resting metabolic rate (the number of calories burned during sleep), says lead researcher Sanjay Patel, M.D., of Case Western Reserve University. He presented the findings at the May American Thoracic Society International Conference. "Other research suggests similar findings in men," he says.

I am so liking this. Sleep more / get thin. Cool.

And you'll not only lose flab with those extra house of snoozing: 5000 people (ha!) showed researches from Columbia that night owls and insomniacs who sleep no more that five hours a night were, " roughly twice as likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure over the next decade."

Even better. Sleep more / get thin / save on sphygmomanometers.

Combine that with a fifteen-year study (ha!) of 27,000 (ha!) older women who drank coffee. Research revealed (ha!) that they had fewer deaths from heart disease that those who didn't drink one to three cups per day of either regular or decaf.

"Coffee is rich in antioxidants, which may reduce the oxidative stress and inflammation that encourage arteries to narrow," says researcher David R. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota.

So ...drink decaf, then sleep a lot. I can do this. I want to do this. I'd rather do this than toss and turn thinking about how much money these studies cost.