Whether you can have a good sleep at night or not is closely related with what you have eaten at supper. A lot of clinical nutritionists also have pointed out that, one of the important reasons which lead to sleep disorders is eating some inappropriate foods at supper. Then, what foods should you eat at supper so as to help you sleep well, or what kinds of food will make you sleepless at night? Following are some typical examples.

First, foods that contain caffeine
Many people know that foods which contain some amount of caffeine not only will stimulate the nervous system, but also has some diuretic effect, which is one of the common reasons that lead to insomnia.

Second, spicy foods
In fact, in addition to the caffeine, if you eat a lot of spicy foods at dinner, it is also one of the important factors that affect the sleeping quality. Such type of foods includes pepper, garlic, onions and so on. These spicy foods can cause a burning sensation in the stomach or indigestion, which will further affect the sleep at night.

Third, greasy foods
If you eat too much greasy foods at supper, it will increase the burden on the intestines, stomach, liver, gallbladder and pancreas, and will stimulate the nerve center, so as to make it stay in the working condition all the time. All these factors can lead to insomnia.

Fourth, foods which will bring a satiety feeling
There are some foods that will produce a lot of gas in the digestive process, which will result in abdominal distension feeling of the body, thus disrupting the normal sleep at night. This kind of foods includes beans, Chinese cabbage, onions, corn, banana, and so on.

Fifth, liquor
It has ever been considered by many people that drinking some liquor before going to bed can promote the sleep. While the recent research shows that, although drinking some liquor can make people fall asleep very quickly, however, it can only make the sleep condition stay in the light sleep phase, and will be difficult to enter into the deep sleep phase. As a result, for those who are used to drinking liquor before bedtime, even if their sleep time is relatively very long, but when they wake up, they will still feel very fatigued.

In a word, in order to have a good sleep at night, you should try to keep away from the above foods at supper. Instead, you should eat some foods which can promote sleep, such as cereal, milk, and so on.