Men who tried a high-fat, high-sugar diet developed disrupted electrical brain activity during the deepest stage of their sleep, suggesting that the food reduced their sleep quality
at Uppsala University in Sweden and his colleagues tested the effects of a Western-style high-fat, high-sugar diet on slow-wave sleep in 15 men with an average age of 23.
electrical activity. After a break of several weeks, they switched to the other diet and repeated the laboratory sleep study.Get the most essential health and fitness news in your inbox every Saturday.The participants were provided with all their meals and had to eat them at set times. The high-fat, high-sugar diet included foods like sweetened granola, pizza and chocolate, whereas the …
Each man typically slept for the same length of time on the two diets and felt their sleep quality was the same. However, the EEG recordings showed that the high-fat, high-sugar diet disrupted slow-wave sleep by reducing the proportion of delta waves and increasing beta waves, suggesting it was less restful. This happened in 11 out of the 14 men for whom full results were collected.
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