Enjoying Summer Fruit? Be Aware: Some May Affect Your Sleep, Experts Warn

Fruits and summer

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Whether, watermelon, melon, fishing or strawberry, it must be said that they have the advantage of refreshing when it is hot and satisfying, while keeping the line. But according to experts, eating these fruits can have harmful effects, especially on our sleep.

Fruit sugar promote insomnia

Indeed, nutritionists warn against the effects of sugar naturally present in these fruits, which have a high glycemic index. They contain what is called “fast sugars” which, as their name suggests, will be absorbed by the body almost as fast as the sugars of a soda.

Sugar can then have several effects on our sleep. Indeed, swallowing an excessive quantity of sugar can make sleep more difficult, and thus cause insomnia. In addition, sugar can cause frequent awakenings at night. These reactions can be explained by the fact that the body will enter into a mechanism for digestion and sugar regulation.

Favor fruit with a low glycemic index

If the most popular fruits of summer will bring a large amount of sugar in your blood, and quickly, not all are like that. Indeed, there are many fruits, which, on the contrary, have a relatively low glycemic index and which will release their sugar in a longer way.

This is the case, for example, of cherry, apricot, plum, … Read The continuation on science and life

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