Study correlates better sleep with eating higher amount of fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. Sounds like it correlates it with getting enough fiber. Is this yet another gut biome thing? Shut up down there! I'm trying to sleep!
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Sounds like it correlates it with getting enough fiber. Is this yet another gut biome thing?
I sure hope so. I'm on a "5 cans of beans a day" diet currently. It really help when I'm biking with all that tail wind.
How is anyone in your neighborhood sleeping?!
Or is it potent enough to knock everyone out before the strangled screams can be heard?
The surprising thing is that it's not too bad because my gut biome has gotten used to it. Maybe a handful of farts a day?
If you can hold them in the hand for measurements, they sound a bit too solid lol
This is what I found when I started eating either lentils, beans, or chickpeas, in the daily. At first you're like what is happening to me and then you're like oh this is actually normal and good.
It's absolutely a gut biome thing. By eating more of the good stuff, there's less room for the rest: less refined sugar, less animal protein, and less saturated fats. Basically displace all the stuff that we already know isn't exactly great for us.
It displaces bad food from the diet, but it goes far beyond that. Gut bacteria eats things that we do not. Specifically, dietary fiber is consumed and often converted into products we can digest and which affect our health in significant and surprising ways. Other functions of fiber include the removal of toxins from the body through absorption and elimination, and the mechanical removal of waste from the digestive system through sheer bulk and gentle abrasiveness.
Reading your comment in my head using the Disco Elysium narrator's voice. π
Since the microbes in the gut feed on your gut if you don't feed them enough, it makes a lot of sense that keeping everything happy means you're bothered less too.
It's a being a biological herbivore thing.
The latest study, published in the journal Sleep Health, showed that shifting from a lifestyle of eating no fruits to one including five cups a day can induce sound sleep at night.
What the hell is a cup of fruit?
I truly hate how Americans measure things: https://fruitsandveggies.org/blog/how-much-do-i-need/
So I just need five bananas to sleep better at night.
One for each hole.
Only one per hole? That's no fun!
Happy Cake Day π
Thank you.
Wait, how are we counting holes here?
Whichever way each is more comfortable with. Everyone has their own individual preferences.
The sentence took me way too long to parse. I read it as βshifting from a lifestyle of eating no fruits to one (fruit) including five cups a dayβ
βFruitsβ and a volume measurement is such a strange way to word it too. Which fruits? How much is a cup? Is it a Canadian, American, or English cup? Is it maybe some other measure?
Usually eight ounces.
Occasionally 9-16 ounces if you have a bigger cup.
and who the fuck has a standard cup?! my mother has about 10 different sizes xD. good we measure with grams and milliliter.
Oddly enough, it's not what you find in a fruit-cup
Same thing as half a pint of fruit
Its actually 5 portions a day. You can count a portion as approx. 80g, or an easy to figure a portion for any human is, it's the size of your fist. If you have a small fist, it's a small portion, and the same for a large fist, large portion.
The actual paper is a lot more interesting than the linked article, and has no ads.
https://www.sleephealthjournal.org/article/S2352-7218(25)00089-0/fulltext
As a poor all I can say is lmao. I guess Iβll try to do more oatmeal.
steel cut oats every day! makes a huge impact on your health if you are not already getting your necessary whole grains every day.
Heard. But beans and lentils (esp dried) are classic poor fare. 2 tablespoons of olive oil, some spices from bulk store, maybe some alliums, 45 mins prep time, and you've got a meal for about $2/serving. Recipe can be riffed on or scaled up effortlessly if you've got a big pot.
EDIT oh I just read the actual article β yeah fresh fruit and veg is definitely harder to come by, especially outside of the peak growing seasons.
Doing exactly this every day. I have MDH "Kitchen King" spice mix right now and it is awesome.
You have to eat seasonally. I've been getting dirt cheap bok choi recently, but it's about done I think. I actually think seasonal variety is a feature, not a bug, but I sure do eat a lot of carrots, cabbage, and potatoes half the year.
I've been going kale crazy because of its long growing season. And yeah, potatoes, carrots, and frozen kale pucks (new username) can easily upgrade a soup.
I used to be all about the frozen spinach, but I got a batch that just turned me right off somehow and now it's team frozen kale.
lol that the remarkable diet is just βeat fruit and veg, and try to avoid sugar and other non complex carbsβ
Based on the latest results, they advise that regularly eating a diet rich in complex carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables is best for long-term sleep health.
βSmall changes can impact sleep. That is empowering β better rest is within your control,β said Marie-Pierre St-Onge, another author of the study.
"Have you tried eating fruit"
Yes. Yes I have.
Sure it'll help for people who have poor sleep because they have a poor diet.
But what about people already on a decent diet and who still suffer from insomnia?
The study, since it's not in the article from what I can tell.
https://www.sleephealthjournal.org/article/S2352-7218(25)00089-0/fulltext
One thing that wasn't mentioned in it is socioeconomic factors. Since the participants chose their own foods after the initial period, I'm betting the people that were already better off economically typically had a "healthier" diet. They're probably not getting their 5 cups of fruit and veg via fried zucchini and banana splits.
Another interesting thing was the maintenance of a ten hour eating window. I wonder why they chose that. There was an offset that had a flimsy reasoning behind it, but the window itself wasn't explained.
or drink and take pills like everyone else
These findings suggest that diets rich in complex carbohydrates, fruits, and vegetables may promote better sleep health.
Here I am, bi-polar and with lifelong sleep issues, taking presecribed sleeping pills, wondering if this would have a noticeable effect for me. I've woke up in the middle of the night every night for the past two weeks. I'll give it a shot.
It only just occurred to me that my sleep disruptions of late are probably directly tied to getting the longest sunlight of the year in the northern hemisphere. If that's the case, my sleep should improve in about a month.