8. Greasy foods
Consuming foods that are high in saturated fat such as takeaways, deep fried foods and some ready meals, as well as red and processed meats places a lot of pressure on our digestive systems.
Our gut needs to use a lot of energy to digest these foods, signalling to the brain that we’re still in daytime, awake mode, therefore disrupting our sleep patterns.
Sleep studies have found that eating a high fat meal for dinner will cause us to wake more during the night and that we’ll spend less time in restorative, dream-state sleep called REM, or rapid eye movement sleep. It can even affect the way we breathe whist we’re asleep and lead to sleep disturbances caused by acid reflux.
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