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Contrary to popular belief, cheese doesn�t give you nightmares when eaten before you go to sleep at night � in fact, depending on what you eat with it, it could even help you to sleep better.
The truth to the myth has been unveiled by Kerrygold, manufacturer of Dubliner Irish Cheese, with the help of Dr Chris Idzikowski, director of The Sleep Advisory Service in Harley Street, London.
Cheese actually contains an amino acid that is used to control sleep and depression, called Tryptophan. The effects of it, however, can be hampered by other foods that are eaten at the same time.
Dr Chris Idzikowski explained: �The interaction between nutrition and sleep is extremely complicated but there is no evidence to suggest a link between eating cheese and experiencing bad dreams. The myth probably originated in the 1950s when there was a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of taking anti-depressants and eating cheese. One of the side effects was nightmares.�
Originally posted by asala
For some reason if i eat cheese late at night i get nightmares,
It also depends on the cheese, if its really strong them yep
[Edited on 6-5-2004 by asala]
Originally posted by drunk
Originally posted by asala
For some reason if i eat cheese late at night i get nightmares,
It also depends on the cheese, if its really strong them yep
[Edited on 6-5-2004 by asala]
Thats strange i have been having wierd nightmares for a week now but i havnt been eating cheese.
Originally posted by Pisky
Garlic cheese makes me fart. The rest has no effect.
I did eat cheese yesterday though and had a dream about vampires. Weird.
Originally posted by Jonna
Someone just told me about cheese the other day, but I had never heard of that.
Originally posted by Pisky
We rarely get any decent gut-blasting cheese here. I used to eat strong Irish & English cheese but we've got bugger all here apart from Dubliner which is ridiculously expensive.
And Pantha's avatar looks like the cat of one of Geiger's aliens !!!!
Aliens V - Revenge of Pantha's Avatar !
Originally posted by pantha
well, I ate a huge chunk of extra mature cheddar, and I didn't dream at all.so that was a bit of a disappointment.