Obesity and gadgets keeping many of us awake at night

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians are increasingly finding it difficult to get a restful night’s sleep and experts are pointing to high obesity rates and growing usage of electronic gadgets as common causes for sleep problems.

It’s well known that the country is the fattest in Asia, based on a study by British medical journal The Lancet. And it is also topping global charts for its social media usage.