A low-fibre diet can stop you having a good night’s sleep

The effect can be immediate; even one day of eating too little fibre and too much saturated fat can disturb that night’s sleep, say researchers from the Columbia University’s medical centre.

Eating the better diet also means people fall asleep more quickly; on average, those eating the high-fibre diet fell asleep within 17 minutes, whereas those eating the high-fats diet took 29 minutes before they were able to sleep.

The researchers tested the two diets on a group of 26 participants with an average age of 35, who spent five nights in a sleep lab.

(Source: J Clin Sleep Med, 2016; 12(1): 19-20)

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