CBS NEWS – Can what you eat affect the way you sleep or the types of dreams you have? A recent study asked just that.
In the study, published Monday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, 40.2% of participants reported certain eating habits affected their sleep.
The study used data from online surveys taken by 1,082 college-aged participants who submitted their experiences from January to April 2023.
The survey asked about more than a dozen food groups, including dairy, desserts and sweets, fruit and meat.
Around 25% of participants said at least one of the food groups worsened their sleep and about 20% said at least one made their sleep better.
Desserts and sweets, spicy food, and dairy, including milk, yogurt and cheese, were mainly blamed for worse sleep …
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