Anyone who has ever suffered in bed after eating three slices of pizza could surmise there is some relationship between food and sleep quality.
For Marie-Pierre St-Onge, the director of Columbia University’s Center of Excellence for Sleep and Circadian Research, years of studying the relationship confirmed it.
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