Foods that are BAD before BED

Both early birds and night owls agree on one point that is the necessity of a good 8 hours sleep at the close of a day. Once you rest yourself on that cozy bed of yourself, you’d want nothing more than to pass out into a sound slumber. Insomniacs are aware of the kind of disruptions the condition brings upon in the lives of those affected by it.

While sleeplessness is still a medical closed book with spotty research results, certain signs point at the fact that consumption of certain foods can be contributory to the development of the same. These gastronomic findings have been branded as ‘sleep stealers’ that should be avoided like plague before bedtime, if you do not wish to stay out of bed all night.

Be a little picky about your bedtime nosh as there are quite a few things nibble-worthy, but can be dangerously detrimental to your health. Take a sneak-peek here:

Ice Cream: The dearest of the nightly food adventures, ice creams have always been embraced as the most compassionate of accompaniments in times of depression and elation.

Supplying the body with sugar in right, or excess dose, ice creams always have an instant effect on the serotonin level of blood. This is exactly why you should avoid gulping on scoops of nutty fudgy ice creams before retiring for your night’s rest.

Ice creams indeed have an undeniable calming effect on the stressed nerves, but that has its limits all right. With all that sugar pumping in your body when you have literally no use with them, what message do you expect your brain will receive?

First, the energy level will prompt your brain activities ahead. When it finds out that you are not in a mood to cash them, it will eventually command your body to simply store all that glucose in the form of fat that you’ll lament on at a later time. Aside, high-sugar foods are said to cause nightmares.

So, now you know why all those gory dreams after indulging on your harmless favorite ice cream and resigning to bed tummy-full?

Celery: Now, this might seem like an unusual entrant in this list. Actually, why celery has shown up has a reason behind.

Celerey contains a generous amount of diuretic, a natural element that cleanses the body through frequent urination. Celery might not directly interfere with your sleep; it sure will signal your body to take pee breaks now and then.

Even though high on nutrient content, it is not recommendable to snack on celery before bedtime. Beside, flushing out water from body throughout the night might result in partial dehydration, if the stock is not replenished timely.

Pizza: Junk food, before bed or after sunrise is not a thoughtful ingestion. The problem with foods like pizza is that they hold a wealthy content of fatty substance as cheese.

Now, something heavy and greasy as that in bighearted quantities will surely require ample work-outs to digest.

Feeding yourself with something as rich as pizza is like giving your stomach a task that will last a night long. With the rest of your body in a state of complete relaxation, how is your digestive department supposed to slog off.

The layer of acidic tomato sauce will naturally ebb up the acid production in the stomach. To top it up, the toppings of high-fat meat chunks will give you heartburn for sure.

You might as well convince yourself for a slice, but know that a single slice is just the start of a full-fat, tummy-heavy, snack-meal. Be kind to the processor in you.

Pasta: The next best Italian dish that can second pizza is pasta. Easy-to-cook and delicious-to-eat, single individuals often prefer to cook it up as fast dinner.

While that is an innocuous habit, compared to fagging and binge-eating, it is not as harmless for the sleep mechanism of your body.

It is direct carbohydrate, and sliding between sheets after downing a generous bowl is without doubt, a sin. That entire thing will change into fat overnight, finding place in different sites of your body. You might actually end bulking up from a serving of before-sleep pasta and a good night’s sleep.

The add-ons like, oil, sauce and cream will freely contribute to the fat formation.

Meat

Protein in right portions is definitely a logical intake to supply the body with the right quantity of amino acids to build and repair. The body uses the simpler and broken down forms of protein in keeping the musculature lean and tight.

But, an overdose right before going to bed is certainly not a good way to make it work.

Protein is one of the most complex food substances that take a good deal of energy to digest. So, eating meat in large quantities, will keep your internal systems working hard overnight, something that might not be the right recipe for a restful night.

Chinese Preparations

The reason they are preferred is the tantalizing effect they have on the tongue, not to mention the appetite.

However, these delicious smelling oriental dishes all the way from the land of China contain monosodium glutamate in bighearted proportion.

MSG is the same as caffeine in the sense that it can keep you staring up the ceiling all night with a fiddly hand and twitchy feet.  

Fruit juice: Juices in the night are crash-and-spike to the sugar level in your blood.

Already acidic enough to cause heartburn, juices have loads of sugar, with zero fiber. The content naturally elevates the blood sugar level in blood, so a safe no before bedtime.

Cereal

This is again a bowl full of carbohydrates. Sugary cereals are a touch worse for sleep.

Alcohol

Alcohol might relax you for the time being, but it only guarantees siestas, and not night-long sound sleeps. It seriously disturbs the restorative functions of sleeping.

Candy Bars and chocolates

Chocolates both dark and normal are richly loaded with caffeine that make them pre-workout snacks. Containing theobromine and other stimulants they trigger rigorous workouts afterwards, if you worry about staying in shape.  

Make a note of these foods and internalize them well to skip doing anything that would perturb your precious sleep.