Help with Finding Studies on Weight Gain

[BigBeautifulMe]

My school's anti-sizeism group (of which I am co-chair) is giving a workshop tomorrow for ResLife staff. I'll be telling my own story - and I'd like studies to back up what I'm saying. Ideally, I'd like to be able to pass out copies of the studies themselves - if not, I'll settle for bibliographical information on them.

I've found a couple of studies that look promising, but don't have access to the medical journal sites that most are posted on because they only let medical personnel register.

If anyone has any information on studies I can use, please, please post!

Here's what I'll be talking about (the last several are strongly inter-related):

Yo-yo dieting as a cause of weight gain
Leptin and Ghrelin - how an imbalance can cause weight gain
How significant, long-term sleep deprivation causes weight gain
Sleep apnea as a cause (rather than an effect) of weight gain
How untreated sleep apnea causes an imbalance in hormones (incl. leptin & ghrelin)
How sleep deprivation causes strong cravings for carbs as your body looks for another source of energy

If anyone has any information on any of this, I'd really appreciate it! I'm still looking myself - but anything you can find would be SO helpful!

Thanks!

 

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