February 11, 2013

The existence of sleep communication and the use of food for a long time, researchers say. But a recent study by American scientists suggests that people who love to eat and therefore eat a lot, sleep a daily spending less time. At the same time the most healthy sleep is seen in those who are accustomed to eat varied.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine studied the information on the duration of sleep, which provided Research Service National Health and Nutrition.

In particular, studied the data of people who were divided into several groups: those who sleep less than five hours in fact, those who used to sleep for 5-6 hours, a group whose members are fully rested 7-8 hours and those who slept over 9 hours a day. Scientists have been aware of all the dietary habits of participants of the experiment, as well as some other parameters: the presence of overweight Level Physical Activity and others. At the same time experts estimated amounts not food and calories.

It turned out that the link between sleep and calories consumed is still there. For most daily we ate those people who used to sleep 5-6 hours, was slightly smaller amount of food eaten in people who slept for 7-8 hours, followed by the group of sleeping 5 hours or less ate all those people who are accustomed to sleep as much as 9 hours a day. However, the most diverse diet was in people who have a relatively normal sleep mode (i.e., 7-8 hours). At the same time the study participants who slept the least had the most monotonous diet.

The researchers evaluated the effect of individual foods and a dream man. So, those who slept the least, consumed very little water and a small amount carbohydrates   and Lycopene   (these pigments exist in fruits and vegetables red). Inadequate amount of water consumed and people sleeping for 5-6 hours. Their diet was lacking and products containing vitamin C . And here Lutein   and zeaxanthin Which are in green vegetables, people in this group consumed a lot.

Fans of sleep longer than all ate little Choline . saturated fat , and theobromine (available in chocolate and tea), but alcohol in their diet had a lot.

In the future, the researchers plan to conduct further studies to find out what substances and in what way affect sleep. But now they make sure the conclusion that the more diverse is the human diet, the healthier he had a dream. After all, the duration of 7-8 hours of sleep is the best for the person.

Incidentally, the duration of sleep and may indicate that the body develops a certain disease. For example, patients diabetes   relatively little sleep.