Go back to bed

And, lose weight. Also, 7 other things worth knowing today.

I’m all for doing two things at once. Like, for example, getting more sleep while also losing weight.

Normally, I don’t jump on the same stories about the same academic studies at the exact same time as other media outlets. I usually assume you’re not only reading Understandably.

But this one, which broke earlier this week and has been covered all over the place, is honestly too good to pass up.

Writing in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from the University of Chicago Sleep Center say they studied 80 adult volunteers, between the ages of 21 and 40, who had obesity and who normally slept fewer than 6.5 hours per night.

They slept in their own beds during the experiment, albeit with wearable sleep trackers, and they were asked not to change their diet or exercise habits during the two-week study—but they were given counseling on sleep hygiene, intended to help them increase the amount of sleep they got each night.

Net results?

• First, they did in fact sleep more: an average of 8.5 hours p…