- Bread, pasta and rice, but also lettuce, radicchio, fresh cheeses, boiled eggs, hot milk and fruit.
These are some of the sleep-saving foods recommended by Coldiretti, in view of the return of solar time.
The agitation caused by the second wave of the Covid emergency risks, in fact, increasing the inconvenience for the approximately 12 million Italians suffering from insomnia, accompanied by anxiety, nervousness, moodiness, headache and muscle tension.
Nutrition, Coldiretti recalls, is closely related to sleep.
Hence the vademecum of useful foods and those to avoid to beat pillow jet lag.
At dinner, Coldiretti advises, it is essential to avoid foods with excess sodium for which foods with plenty of curry, pepper, paprika and salt should be banned, but also pretzels and dishes in which cooking cube has been used.
Canned foods for excess sodium and preservatives are also to be kept away.
Go ahead, instead, to pasta, rice, barley, bread and all those that contain an amino acid, tryptophan, which promotes the synthesis of serotonin, the neuromediator of well-being and the brain neurotransmitter that stimulates relaxation.
Legumes, boiled eggs, meat, fish, fresh cheeses are also good.
Serotonin increases with the consumption of foods with simple sugars such as seasonal sweet fruit.
Among the vegetables, lettuce comes first, followed by red radicchio, garlic, pumpkin, turnips and cabbage.
A glass of warm milk, just before going to bed, then, in addition to decreasing gastric acidity, brings into the circulation during digestion elements that favor a good sleep.
Finally, concludes Coldiretti, a good dessert rich in simple carbohydrates has an anti-stress action, as well as infusions and herbal teas sweetened with honey.
(HANDLE).