Previous studies have shown that a healthy diet can...Improve sleep qualitycan. A new study recently published in the Journal of Occupational Medicine proves that the reverse is also true: healthy sleep can cure emotional eating. Emotional eaters are people who try to relieve stress and negative experiences or feelings through food.
The connection between healthy sleep and healthy nutrition
During the study, the medical records of 252 people with obesity were examined. All subjects suffered from chronic stress and this affected their diet and alcohol consumption.
During the study, researchers also examined how participants' heart rhythms changed during sleep.
After onein-depth analysisThey found that there is a connection between good sleep quality and diet. The better you sleep, the more relaxed you wake up and the healthier you eat.
And vice versa – if you don’t sleep well, you often wake up stressed. Such people try to compensate for the negative feelings through so-called “emotional eating”. They also consumed more alcohol on average.
Emotional eaters should therefore first change their sleeping habits and learn to reduce everyday stress. Because stress is perhaps the most important trigger for unhealthy eating habits.
The subjects who learned to reduce daily stress had healthier sleep at the end of the study than at the beginning. In other words, mental health can have a negative or positive impact on physical health.
Thehealthy sleepis heavily dependent on our mental health. Anyone who suffers from obesity should first try to improve their sleep quality and only then change their diet.
A good morning and evening routine can help. If you go to sleep at the same time every evening and get up at the same time in the morning, you are doing something good for your body.
Breathing exercises before bed can also have a positive effect on sleep and our diet.
