A study that analysed the DNA of self-professed 'nights owls' and 'morning larks' found that people who like to rise early tend to be thinner than those who go to bed later.
通过分析“夜猫子”和“早起鸟”的DNA，研究发现：早起的人会比晚睡的人更瘦。
They are also less prone to depression and less likely to suffer from insomnia.
Almost 90,000 people were asked if they were naturally a morning or a night person and had their DNA analysed.
This revealed 15 genes that were linked to a person being a 'lark' or an 'owl'.
A preference for mornings rose with age, with more than twice as many of over-60s describing themselves as morning types than under-30s.
Women were more likely to enjoy mornings than men, the journal Nature Communications reports.
The researchers, from the California-based genetic testing company 23andMe aren't sure why a person's body clock might be so strongly linked to health.
But it might to be as simple as too many late nights taking their toll on evening types.
更多英语新闻作者: kobe 时间: 2016-2-12 20:00
