HEALTHY diet

10 Foods You Should Never Eat Before Bedtime

by Pratyush Anand

Spicy foods lead to gut issues, and specifically, strains affecting the heart muscles make it impossible to sleep. It also increases skin conductance and body temperature, that interferes with sleep.

1. Spicy Foods

2. Chocolate

Caffeine and sugar are known stimulants which are present in chocolate, which will put you keep awake.

Ice cream is a product containing much sugar and fat and both products are well known to increase energy levels. If taken before night, it causes restlessness making it hard to go to sleep.

3. Ice Cream

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Common types such as oranges and grapefruits contain high acidic content. Consuming them can make it rather difficult for one to find a good sleeping position and go to sleep. 

5. Citrus Fruits

The food most people love is pizza, that is heavy and may take a long time to digest hence resulting in a rude wake-up call in the middle of the night. 

6. Pizza

Meat is difficult to digest and often takes a lot of time to digest, therefore, during the night when the body should be resting, it is hard at work digesting which leads to sleeping problems.

7. Meat

It was observed that chips contain a high content of salt and fats that lead to dehydration and indigestion effects which disturb your sleep cycle.

8. Chips

Coffee contains a very small percentage of caffeine and this is the reason why it can disrupt your sleeping pattern.

9. Coffee

10. Alcohol

Although alcohol has a sedative effect, it is one of the most effective sleep jinks because it affects sleep in a non-linear cycle thus making it a sleep deterrent rather than a promoter. 

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