India, Nov. 21 -- If you're someone who powers through the day on just five or six hours of sleep, you may be unknowingly putting your health at risk. Chronic short sleep doesn't simply leave you feeling tired - it can quietly drive weight gain and raise your chances of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Sleeping fewer than seven hours a night disrupts key hormones, destabilises glucose balance, and interferes with how your body absorbs and utilises nutrients, setting off a chain reaction that affects everything from appetite to metabolism.

Dr Kunal Sood, an anaesthesiologist and interventional pain medicine specialist, has highlighted the often-overlooked yet significant link between inadequate sleep, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. In an Insta...