Contents:
- Medical Video: Sleepy After Eating?
- Why am I sleepy if I don't have breakfast?
- Breakfast can also make you sleepy
- So what breakfast should you not?
Medical Video: Sleepy After Eating?
Which team are you: always having breakfast or not used to eating breakfast? Every person does have their own habits in the morning. Uniquely, two different habits, namely breakfast and not breakfast, can have the same effect, which is drowsiness. Read on the following explanation to find out why.
Why am I sleepy if I don't have breakfast?
Wake up, you may be used to direct activities without refueling with nutritious foods and drinks. If you push yourself to breakfast, you might even feel bad.
Well, the problem is that many people who are not used to breakfast complain that they feel sleepy in the morning before noon. In fact, in the morning you should feel fresh and productive. A nutritionist and professor at the Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB), Prof. Dr. Ir. Ali Khomsan, MS, answered this issue.
"If we don't eat breakfast, we don't get enough glucose to be delivered to the brain. While the brain is glucose food, "said Prof. Ali Khomsan when met at Fairmont Senayan Hotel, Central Jakarta on Wednesday (3/10). Furthermore, he also explained that without glucose, the brain becomes less energy so you will feel sleepy.
Glucose (sugar) itself can be obtained from food and drinks that are eaten when you eat breakfast. In the body, glucose will be processed and converted into an energy source for human organs, including the brain. That's why you are easily drowsy in the morning if you miss breakfast.
Breakfast can also make you sleepy
If you don't have breakfast you can make you sleepy, meaning breakfast is a guarantee that you will be free from sleepiness? Not necessarily. Some people even complain of being sleepy early in the morning starting with breakfast.
However, according to Prof. Ali Khomsan, actually it is not the breakfast that makes you lethargic, but the food portion. "If you overeat, then the oxygen runs into all the stomachs. In fact, the brain eats oxygen too. So if oxygen runs into the stomach and the brain lacks oxygen, you are drowsy, "said Prof. Ali Khomsan.
Oxygen is indeed needed by the body to carry out the functions of human organs. Among them are digestive function. So when you eat too much, the digestive system must work extra hard to process the food. In the process, oxygen will be used more by the stomach so that the brain does not get enough oxygen.
So what breakfast should you not?
In his opinion Prof. Ali Khomsan, you still have to have breakfast to support optimal body activities and functions throughout the day.
The key to not being sleepy is to estimate the portion so that it is not excessive. In addition, you must have breakfast with proper and balanced nutritional intake, in this case carbohydrates and proteins. Do not get too much carbohydrate or your breakfast only contains high saturated fat. These errors will also make you sleepy.
