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That junk food you wolf down during the day increases your chances of a wakeful night by up to 9%. Doesn’t sound like much, but it can be the difference between a good night of uninterrupted sleep and lots of tossing and turning.

French investigators at the Sorbonne surveyed 38,570 subjects with an average age of 50 years about their sleep and eating habits. Almost one in every five suffered from insomnia and 16% of the group’s dietary intake consisted of ultra-processed food (UPF).

The data showed that even a 10% increase in dietary junk food led to a 9% greater risk of insomnia for the males snd a 5% greater risk for females. Both increases were statistically significant.

What are the junk foods we’re talking about? Sugary breakfast cereals, flavored potato chips, fried chicken, frozen blended coffee drinks, energy drinks, artificially flavored cheese crackers, sugary granola bars, and sodas. A diet of these will not only interrupt your nightly sleep but will also help guarantee that you will get to that eternal sleep that much sooner.

In another study, sHarvard researchers, studying 114,000 subjects, found that ultra-processed breakfast cereals increase your risk of dying by as much as 7% while sugar-sweetened drinks increase your risk of early death as much as 12%.

https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(24)00094-7/fulltext

https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-078476

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Junk Food Keeps You Up At Night

Dr. Howard Smith Reports