As more and more studies are showing, the old saying “you are what you eat” may need an addendum: “you sleep how you eat.” A small new
study from
Columbia University Medical Center finds that over just a few nights, diet can make a difference in sleep quality: People who ate higher-fat, lower fiber diets were more likely to sleep poorly that night than when they ate a healthier diet. They were in a sleep lab, of course, and not in their natural habitats. But if the results are applicable to us at home, too – and it’s likely that they are – then a new tenet of sleep hygiene might be not to have a lot of fatty food before we go to sleep.
The team had 26 participants spend five nights in a sleep lab. For the first three days, they ate nutritionist-designed meals, which were high in fiber and low in saturated fat. On the fifth day, they got to eat what they wanted – these meals tended to be higher in saturated fat, lower in fiber, and higher in sugar.
The participants’ sleep was tracked by polysomnography after eating the healthier meals for three days, and the night of the self-selected meal.
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