A good and deep sleep each day will help you get good health, comfortable spirit, sound mind and improve the resistance of the body, contributing to disease prevention effectively. However, sometimes for many different reasons you may experience some sleepless nights, tossing and turning all night and one of the reasons is six types of foods as follows:
Foods containing caffeine
Coffee, chocolate, tea specialty, green tea, some carbonated soft drinks… are all the foods containing lots of caffeine. Caffeine presenting in these foods makes up the stimulus to keep you awake, so just a moderate amount of foods listed above is also enough to cause you insomnia instantly.
Pungent foods
Including dishes prepared with many spices producing pungency as pimento, pepper, mustard… Pungent taste will make special flavor of food, making it more attractive, stimulating the appetite more; however, it is an issue causing sleep disorders in general and insomnia in particular if you eat too much at dinner, supper. Especially, for patients susceptible to heartburn, stomach pain after eating acrid foods, they will make diseases worse or cause other symptoms making sleep be “disturbed” much more. Therefore, if you do not want to lose sleep, you should limit pungent foods in your dinner, supper,
Wine, beer, alcoholic beverages
There were so many people believing that drinking 1-2 glasses of wine before going to bed would make sleep better, deeper. Nevertheless, wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages are the reason for your sleep disorder, causing insomnia, poor sleep, broken and unstable sleep. Not to mention that if you drink beer before getting into bed, this diuretic food will awaken you to go to the toilet at midnight.
Foods causing indigestion, dyspepsia
They include smoked foods, processed foods, greasy foods, beans, cabbage, corn…. These foods when eating will cause indigestion, dyspepsia, create a burden for the operation of the agencies in the body making it difficult to go to sleep.
In addition, some kinds of bacon also produce exciting substances which are agents making you lose sleep instantly. Thus, you should limit these foods, they not only cause you insomnia but also affect your health negatively.
Water
Everyone surely knows that drinking enough water, plenty of water every day is the way helping us protect the health, improve beauty very effectively, but drink plenty of water right before going to sleep is a mistake. Water enters the body and is released in a short time, so if you drink too much water before sleeping, you will not be able to get a peaceful sleep. Therefore, it is best not to drink water before going to bed 90 minutes to ensure that you will not have to wake up and go to the toilet at midnight.
Fermented foods
Fermented foods include yogurt, cheese, soy, vinegar…. These foods contain the acid amin tyramine, which has stimulating effect on the brain, causing euphoria and making you wake up at night, consequently, making your sleep unsteady, unstable. Hence, before going to bed, if you feel hungry, just drink a glass of warm milk or eat fresh food, stay away from fermented foods because they will keep you awake all night and wake up tiredly in the next day.