Quality sleep is one of the key pillars of good health that is often ignored by most people. After a sleepless and restless night, most of us feel lethargic the whole of the next day. An improvement in diet can have positive repercussions on our sleep leading to better overall health. India’s eminent dietician and nutritionist Avni Kaul shares some key foods that may help us sleep better.
1. Add a banana to your diet
Bananas are rich in potassium and vitamin B6. They help the body to make melatonin (a sleep-inducing hormone triggered by darkness). Unless you are diabetic, you may add one banana to your evening snack to improve your sleep quality.
2. Nuts for bedtime snacks
Nuts are great bedtime snacks as they are packed with magnesium and tryptophan that boosts serotonin levels in the brain. Serotonin is the key hormone that stabilizes our mood, feelings of well-being, and happiness and improves our sleep quality. Hence keep a small bowl of walnuts, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds in your snacks jar.
3. Cup of Dahi
Sometimes poor sleep is an outcome of calcium deficiency, especially in women and in senior citizens. Hence adding a cup of Dahi (Curd) to your daily diet will not only boost your gut health but also balance the calcium level in the body. Since calcium is needed for processing the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin, dahi can also improve your sleep quality.
4. Dark leafy vegetables – Spinach, broccoli and Kale
Dark leafy vegetables like spinach, broccoli and kale (in case if you don’t find Kale with your regular vegetable vendor you can order it from online vege-stores, or get it from premium vegetable shops like Khan Market, Greater Kailash, etc) contains a high dose of Vitamin B that helps treat insomnia condition.
Author Avni Kaul is a qualified nutritionist, experienced dietician, Diabetes Educator and founder of Delhi’s successful diet and nutritionist clinic NutriActivania. She is also one of India’s eminent weight-loss experts, diabetes dieticians, pregnancy dieticians and child nutritionists and helps kids to develop a strong immune system, fight allergies, gain height and weight as well as fight overweight / Obesity with an effective diet plan that is easy and fun to follow by children.
In Buenos Aires, 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games Nutritionist Avni Kaul was the Advisor (Nutrition) from India. She is a Gold-medallist master’s science graduate from the University of Delhi in the subject of Food and Nutrition. Avni Kaul is a diet and nutrition columnist in some of India's leading newspapers and magazines like - NDTV, TimesNow, Grazia and more.
Diet Programs by Avni Kaul
Your dietician consultation with dietician Avni Kaul will do the following things. Avni Kaul’s diet program will offer:Focus on your health benefits: Key benefits Avni offers, are long-term wellness, freedom from restrictive diets, and improved relationships with food and body, that include "intuitive eating," "weight loss without hard core dieting," and "healthy eating for pregnant woman and kids".
A high degree of qualifications, expertise, and achievements: Dietician Avni is one of the most sought-after dieticians in Delhi because of her qualifications that include gold medalist in Master's Degree of Science, B.Sc and M.Sc Food and Nutrition, Certified Diabetes Educator, Diploma in Applied Sports and Exercise Nutrition.
Fully personalized diet plans: With dietician Avni Kaul, you will get a tailor-made diet that suits your body and mind only that will help you to achieve your health goals in a holistic and sustainable manner be it is with your weight management, pregnancy diet, child nutrition, diabetes or thyroid management.
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