The age old myth that cheese gives you nightmares has finally been laid to rest this week following the release of a new study carried out by the British Cheese Board.
The in-depth Cheese & Dreams study, a first of its kind, reveals that eating cheese before bed will not only aid a good night’s sleep but different cheeses will in fact cause different types of dreams.
Of the 200 volunteers who participated in the week-long study, 72% slept well every night, 67% remembered their dreams and none recorded experiencing nightmares after eating a 20g piece of cheese half an hour before going to sleep.
A lot of people still believe the old wives tale that cheese gives you nightmares but this study endorses the scientific facts.
Hat-tip to Matushka Donna.
It makes interesting reading, but I'm still not sure about it. Twenty grammes doesn't sound like a lot of cheese to me. I find that if I eat pizza too soon before going to bed, it wakes me up, and it is better to give it a chance to digest first. I wonder if they should re-run the experiment with cooked cheese.
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Still, I'll avoid it last thing before retiring.
I don't have trouble with cheese, but pizza sauce will do a job on my stomach if I eat it too close to bedtime. Try pizza without cheese and pizza without sauce to see which wakes you. WAIT--it won't be pizza without both cheese and sauce. So much for that idea.
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I'm trying to figure out where they found people who would eat just 20g of cheese! I don't know anyone who would make do with just that amount.
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