thehealthycrunch: Healthy Diet: The Good Night Sleep

What has food got to do with your sleepless nights, you might wonder. But indeed, healthy diet has some effect in the quality of sleep you get . Our nutritional status and the foods we eat always has the influence in the number of hours of sleep we get. Good thing there are sleep inducing foods that actively drives us to sleepy mood for a good night sleep.

Here are some of these healthy, sleepy-happy foods you can incorporate in your diet:

Warm milk. Milk has tryptophan – an amino acid with sedative and calcium, that helps the brain to sleep. It also has a psychological throwback or infancy, when warm bottle means “relax, everything’s fine.”
Honey. Put a little amount of honey in your warm milk or herb tea. Too many sugar is stimulating, but a little glucose will tell your brain to turn off that orexin, a neurotransmitter which recently has been discovered to have something to do with alertness.
Chamomile tea. The mild sedating effect of chamomile tea helps many stresses people fall asleep – it is a perfect natural antidote for your stresses body and brain.
Bananas. They are called sleeping pill in a peel. Aside from the soothing melatonin and serotonin, bananas also contains magnesium, a muscle relaxant.
Oatmeal. They are rich source of sleep because it induces melatonin.
Potatoes. Eating a small amount of baked potato or a small serving of mashed o roasted potatoes sweeps away acids in the body that may block the effect of tryptophan.
Almonds. A small amount of this heart-healthy nuts induces sleep because of its tryptophan and magnesium content.
Whole-wheat bread. A piece of toast with your tea and honey releases insulin, that helps transmit tryptophan to the brain, where it is converted to serotonin and quietly tell your brain “it’s time to sleep.”