Had a rough night?

I always thought it was because of alcohol that I had an excessive craving for cheese soufflés and milkshakes. That the greasiness would bind the floating liquids, something like that. But now I read again that lack of sleep is the reason you want to eat a lot and fatty foods. What's going on?

Northwestern University Feinberg, School of Medicine studied two groups where one group was allowed to sleep sufficiently for four weeks and then only four hours per night for four weeks. In another group, they reversed this exactly. Anyway, what turned out?

After a short night, everyone craved calorie-rich food. Cookies, donuts, chips; everything went down. Due to sleep deprivation, certain areas of the brain receive too little information and you compensate for that by choosing food with a rich energy signal.

Furthermore, it turned out that in people who have slept too little, there is increased activity in the area of the brain that receives the smell signals from the nose. This leads to extra cravings for junk food because if something has a strong and hard-to-resist smell, it is definitely that.

When you consider that a short night is often caused by a cozy evening where you also had a few drinks of one thing or another drunk which also increases cravings for bad things) and you now have the spine of a rainworm due to all causes, you can safely assume that this will not be a healthy-eating day. But you know what? Tomorrow is another day. Early to bed, a cup of tea, and tomorrow you'll be strong again. Here’s a nice healthy and good-for-the-world recipe.