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- clumsyninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This digg is making me hungry... and sleepy.
- Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now if you use a barbiturate marinade...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, its another case of the Amazing Human Selective Memory....
No, eating Turkey doesn't make you sleepy... Eating makes you sleepy.
Drinking beer AND eating turkey... yeah, that'll work to. - karras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^lions, Freaking spell checker.
- karras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I know I've felt sleepy after thanksgiving dinner. It must just be because I eat so freaking much.
Gluttony for the digg."
Exactly massie! Same here.
Same thing as when loins "pass out" after gorging themselves on their prey. - seenthefuture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We probably just eat more turkey than usual on Thanksgiving.
- bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A digg sponsored by Turkey Farmers of America.
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah yes, my loins are also very hungry for some meat. ;)
- uncle_dad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's the potatoes and stuffing
- Tracon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wild turkey is the best and no it doesn't have a gamy taste like duck or geese. plus the fat content is less and the bird has a variety of things to eat so the meat tastes better thats my theory anyway. farm turkeys are fed the same thing every day that has alot to do with taste.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You get sleepy after eatting so much because you body lacks the insulin needed to digest the food youve consumed. Its medical not chemical
- inactive, on 04/15/2009, -0/+0I doubt it's a mental thing, as I remember being consistently sleepy after thanksgiving dinner (at 3~4pm) for years before hearing about trytophan
- karras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0p.s. "loins" I know, I know. It's a word.
- sxtxixtxcxh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's also on snopes: http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp
- earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i get very sluggish when i eat. true. But the other day i have stuffed peppers... small enough meal, no big deal. But after i ate i was TIRED> I couldnt keep my eyes open. Then i remembered it was filled with turkey. I blame the turkey!
Besides, who the ***** knows. We have no idea and its different for everybody. Something can have an effect on one person and nothing on another. And what do doctors and scientists know? If they know so much tell me this: Is milk good or bad for us? We still have no ***** idea! - earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont care what this study says... everytime i eat turkey i get very sleepy. pils have virtually no effect on me but turkey knocks me out instantly.
- mindsinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LIES...all lies...
- Ir0n_mE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is *****. They say things like this all the time...what effects things have but I believe turkey does make you sleepy. A lot of people don't know anything about this "myth" and get sleepy.
- ElHefe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apparently they haven't had my Grandma's Turkey with roofie stuffing.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing has been busted.
All the article says is that there is not enough tryptophan in an average meal which includes turkey to make one very sleepy. Of course, a mild sedative effect on top of a heavy meal might be just enough to make one blissfully miss the last half of the Thanksgiving eve movie ...
The truth is that tryptophan, a small portion of which is converted to melatonin in the brain, is only ever a mild sedative. It relaxes a person, and if they need sleep, then it comes all the more easily. Otherwise they just chill, sleep doesn't necessarily come.
If you need a natural sedative, cut right to the melatonin. It's fairly cheap and available at supplement stores.
Beef and turkey; I love them, so I don't bat an eye at the stats. I wonder if the tryptophan is why? Dieing of a heart attack in one's sleep is really one of the better waya to go, don't you think. Yeah, I know; not at 55. Shaddap, will ya? ;^) - mindsinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"we always go hunt for our thanksgiving turkey.....wild is a million times better than store bought...i love thanksgiving"
But...I like all the steriods and chemicals poored into my bird. - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^But does it "taste" like turkey???
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Milk has the same effect. Maybe its all in our heads?
- Soma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No duh... I hate having to tell everyone that you won't conk out because of the tryptophan... you'd need to eat about 40lbs, and weigh about 60lbs for that to work. The most likely cause of drowsiness after a meal is lack of blood in the brain when it all rushes to your stomach to help you digest.
- Nullifidian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the article has no reference and no stated author.
plus I noticed the sedative effects long ago when I didn't even know it was supposed to have sedative effects. - FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is *****. Yes milk does the same thing too, especially when warmed up. also I've stuffed my self many times before with diffrent kinds of foods, and never felt sleepy as I do after a turkey dinner.
- Heiliger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The weird part about this report, is that it states that the body isn't affected by the turkish Tryptophan as much as a pure dose of the substance because Tryptophan is not absorbed as well when it is part of a meal... All I ever hear anywhere else is how a nutrient or substance is absorbed faster when it is part of a food item eaten.... I guess THIS is why I am a layman...
Me no scientist, but....... oooh shiny (stares dumbfounded at sun.. goes blind) - Tomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is very old, and it's true. It's become more of a psychological effect more than anything, and those who get tired afterwards can't just blame it on turkey! ;)
- hao2lian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The article has no reference and no stated author."
Then
http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/turkey.asp
which has both authors and references. - crossers, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0for everyone it's the same. after eating everyone wont to sleep.
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - sambqt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner because I had to get up at 4:00 a.m. to put the stupid turkey in the oven. The boring relatives aren't exactly keeping me awake, either. I really need a cocktail and a nap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about soybeans? Like it says, soybeans have more tryptophan then turkey.
Isn't soy what vegetarians eat all the time? I don't see them falling down sleeping. (except maybe for a lack of protein).
The point i really want to make is, no matter how many people get tired after thanksgiving dinner, there's no proof that the tryptophan makes them tired, EVEN if this article doesn't proof it doesn't.
Apparently though, the average person thinks they're smarter then the scientists, all because they read the story on the internet, so they don't think it's credible. - terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This isn't new. Scientist have known for years that this was a myth.
There are other foods that have tryptophan than turkey. - JackStrap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i feel spleepy after getting wasted.
- sandwichpants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You certainly don't have to know about tryptophan to get sleepy from thanksgiving dinner, because it's not a mental effect, I'm not sure where some of posters got that idea.
One name for (at least part of) the effect of passing out after thanksgiving dinner is "Carb Nap". Though I think there's more than carbohydrates at work in thanksgiving dinner, I'm not sure how huge amounts of fats and protien affect drowsiness. From what an earlier poster mentioned about how lions take a nap after gorging on meat it seems likely though.
I find the food that can knock me out easier than anything is a Digiorno rising crust frozen pizza. We used to joke that they were valium flavoured back in college when we fixed them when we wanted to pass out in front of the TV. - Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0turkey and stuffing....
my anti-drug
++DIGG FTW - JMJimmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0didn't really read comments so someone may have stated this:
More blood goes to your stomach area after you eat, the more you eat the more blood is needed in that area. THAT is what makes you sleepy so if you eat a lot you'll have less blood in your brain and you want to sleep... biology 101 - so in fact the statement "turkey doesn't make you sleepy" is actually false. just depends on how much you eat! - thotpoizn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 I still don't buy it. I have a pretty good capacity for packing away food - I once sat and ate half a gallon of spaghetti (one of my favorite foods in the whole wide world) - at one sitting. Net effect - yeah, I was lethargic for the remainder of the afternoon. But at Thanksgiving and Christmas, every year we cook about a 25-30 lb. Turkey. I eat a drumstick and a thigh. Net effect? coma. Half-lidded eyes and wobbly knees, followed by collapsing onto the nearest unoccupied (or semi-unoccupied) soft piece of furniture. Drops me every time, has since I was a wee lad and had never heard of, nor could I pronounce, tryptophan.
So - snopes, this article, and all the world's scientists notwithstanding - I still have to call BS. If it's not tryptophan, then there's something ELSE in Turkey meat (something apparently absent in smoked ham, roast beef, chicken duck or goose, meatloaf, spaghetti, fish, or BBQ tri-tips) - that knocks me on my butt every time. Dammit, now I'm hungry again, and I just had lunch... *hee hee* - jayinvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Makes my ass tired! Scientists also have reportedly deciphered squirrel speak! Kind of a Mars Attacks moment! They don't know what the hell they are talking about.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0People forget that turkey was Intelligently Designed to make you fall asleep.
I know I did. WITHOUT ALCOHOL AND WITH OTHER THINGS HAVING ALREADY BEEN EATEN.
This article is crap and they need to study more than just the turkey... - WolvenSpectre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOld Story
I saw a live experiment on television in 1989 that disproved this that used a whackload of twins a bunch of turkies, chickens, and varying amounts of Tryptophan.
To get a measurable Tryptophan imparment going a person had to 'eat' a dose equivilent to multiple turkies!
Now eating a large meal causes your blood to flow to your digestive system and away from your brain and extremities. You then expirience what some doctors call 'Digestive Massage' where the now slow rythmic pulse and movements in your digestive system give you a relaxing message from the inside out. This is supposed to be deceptive as you stretch the hell out of your poor digestive track as it gets pulled and infllated in ways it is not used to. - thejerc11, on 11/23/2007, -0/+0http://thejercstore.blogspot.com/2007/11/fowl-fabr ...
- mcpaige, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0source ....
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1122_051122_thanksgiving.html
... - culebra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow turkey tech...... not sure if this is digg worthy
- nailz420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0in other news: More Myths busted - Eating eggs doesnt give you high cholesterol, drinking alcohol doesnt give you liver problems, smoking cigaretts doesnt give you cancer.
- rmassie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I know I've felt sleepy after thanksgiving dinner. It must just be because I eat so freaking much.
Gluttony for the digg. - LowGan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0we always go hunt for our thanksgiving turkey.....wild is a million times better than store bought...i love thanksgiving
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