Rice called the perfect remedy for insomnia

Experiencing a regular sleep problems people need to include in your daily diet more and more rice. This conclusion was made by Japanese researchers.

Insomnia

Scientists at Kanazawa Medical University found that regular consumption of rice can be an excellent means treatment of insomnia . During study, which was attended by over 2 000 people who have problems sleep, was found a direct relationship between the rice and the night's sleep. Other words, the more of rice contained in the human diet, the higher the quality of sleep they got. As the number of volunteers rice complained of worsening of the quality of sleep.

When researchers tried to find the same relationship between the amount of bread and noodles in your diet and volunteers sleep quality, they did not succeed. Consequently, not all products containing large amounts of carbohydrates, help in treatment of insomnia . Although the authors of the study are not sure what exactly helps the rice, they suggested that the matter in its highest glycemic index   - One of the main indicators of the digestive system human.

This figure shows the rate of cleavage of carbohydrate in the body and converting them to sugar, enters the blood and provide us with energy. Foods high glycemic index   increase the level of protein tryptophan, which is used by the body to produce serotonin - hormone inducing a person to sleep. Bread and noodles have a low glycemic the index, and this may be the reason why they do not help at insomnia. (READ MORE)

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