Here’s the flipside to the story about foods that can help you sleep better: eating a diet heavily composed of the “wrong” foods can interfere with your sleep.
That’s the news from a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center and presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. What are the wrong foods in this case? A diet made of up high-fat foods may diminish the quality of your sleep as well as cause you to gain weight.
To investigate the effects of a high-fat diet on sleep, researchers put rats on a fatty-food diet for 8 weeks. The rats, no surprise, gained weight. They then monitored the rats’ 24-hour sleep-wake cycles and found that the animals’ sleep cycles had changed for the worse:
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