{"id":16409,"date":"2021-07-30T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16409"},"modified":"2021-07-30T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T13:00:10","slug":"3-comfort-foods-to-avoid-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/3-comfort-foods-to-avoid-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Comfort Foods to Avoid to Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone has, at one time or another, sat on the couch in the middle of the night with their favorite snack food watching a movie. <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the ultimate comfort time. It is many people’s go-to when they can’t sleep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it may surprise many to know that those comfort foods may be the very thing preventing them from sleeping.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Certain foods<\/span><\/a> secretly have caffeine or other elements that inhibit sleep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chocolate<\/b><\/h3>\n

Chocolate is so delicious and can be comforting, except that it has a lot of caffeine. <\/span><\/p>\n

Caffeine causes more rapid eye movement (REM) and that will leave you feeling tired the next day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eating chocolate has the same effect as drinking coffee! So you should treat it the same in your diet and only have it occasionally earlier in the day<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheese<\/b><\/h3>\n

What could be wrong with cheese? It’s dairy, natural, and oh so good, right? <\/span><\/p>\n

Cheese is one of the absolute worst foods you can eat before going to bed. That\u2019s because cheese actually wakes you up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As it turns out, cheese makes us more alert and that will make it difficult to sleep. Aged cheese has a lot of tyramine and amino acid that turns on our alert system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Tyramine is linked to the adrenal gland releasing a “fight or flight” hormone that can keep you awake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ice Cream<\/b><\/h3>\n

Yes, the beloved late-night ice cream binges must stop if you want to sleep. Sugar is the culprit with this. <\/span><\/p>\n

Processed sugar causes a spike in blood sugar levels, which eventually will cause a crash. <\/span><\/p>\n

If that happens while you are asleep, your adrenal gland produces a ton of cortisol and you wake up.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Similar to cheese, your body experiences a sudden rush that is similar to the fight or flight response. <\/span><\/p>\n

This can keep you awake throughout the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can still eat these foods, just eat them earlier in the day so it won’t affect your sleep patterns. <\/span><\/p>\n

Limited food at night will help you reduce weight too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone has, at one time or another, sat on the couch in the middle of the night with their favorite snack food watching a movie. It’s the ultimate comfort time. It is many people’s go-to when they can’t sleep.\u00a0 However, it may surprise many to know that those comfort foods may be the very thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[1331,693],"class_list":["post-16409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-diet-and-sleep","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}