Dieting makes you fat. Fact Fallacy 8. Bottle-feeding makes babies fat Fact Fallacy 9. It is dangerous to wake a sleepwalker. No one really knows what causes people to walk in their sleep.
Children do it more than adults, and men more than women.
Stress or anxiety may be a contributing factor, and children are more prone to sleepwalking when overtired. Older people are more likely than young people to die if they contract cancer.