{"id":17053,"date":"2023-06-13T20:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=17053"},"modified":"2023-06-13T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:59:49","slug":"junk-food-may-impair-sleep-quality-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/food\/junk-food-may-impair-sleep-quality-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk food may impair sleep quality, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junk food may impair sleep quality, study suggests. Eating meals too close to bedtime is notorious for prompting sleep issues, but another factor to consider throughout the day is what you\u2019re eating. New research in the journal Obesity finds that just a few days of consuming unhealthy foods may also tank your sleep quality.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers looked at 15 healthy, young men who ate two different types of meals in randomized order. Some of the group started with a high-fat, high-sugar diet for a week, then changed to a low-fat, low-sugar diet for the following week. Others in the group switched that order.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of each week, participants spent a night in a sleep lab, which recorded variables like sleep duration and sleep phases. For all of them, sleep quality after a week of eating the \u201cjunk food\u201d diet, laden with fat and sugar, was poor compared to sleep following a week of healthy eating.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/positive-balanced-relationship-with-food-here-are-some-things-to-know.html\">Positive &amp; balanced relationship with food, here are some things to know<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Deep sleep\u2014also known as slow wave sleep\u2014was the most notable shift, according to lead author Jonathan Cedernaes, Ph.D., associate professor in medical cell biology at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\">Uppsala University in Sweden<\/a>. He told Bicycling that this sleep stage is tied to memory processing and secretion of several hormones, including growth hormone, as well as metabolic regulation and insulin resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that exposure to the unhealthier diet disrupted a restorative part of slow-wave sleep, making this sleep stage more shallow,\u201d he said. \u201cSuch changes can also be seen in aging or sleep<\/p>\n<p>conditions, such as insomnia. Although we did not assess the impact on health outcomes in our study, we know from other work that intact deep sleep is associated with better longterm health.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junk food may impair sleep quality, study suggests. Eating meals too close to bedtime is notorious for prompting sleep issues, but another factor to consider throughout the day is what you\u2019re eating. New research in the journal Obesity finds that just a few days of consuming unhealthy foods may also tank your sleep quality. Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,7],"tags":[1045,9386,6425,8413],"class_list":["post-17053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","tag-food","tag-junk-food","tag-research","tag-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}