Riddle me this... why do you feel so darned sleepy after a good dinner of Chinese food, and then feel ravenous only a few hours later? 247-drugstore.com
Is it the tea? The starch? I am stumped on this one. Or maybe I'm just plain tired and delirious.
But I will say that this is one of the great mysteries of our time.
it's gotta be the salt...
no wait, that's just why I get THIRSTY
you're right - great mystery
IANAN (I am not an nutritionist), but I think it has to do with the amount of rice & noodles in most chinese meals.
When you eat a bunch of rice & noodles, your body digests the starch into sugar dumps it into your bloodstream. Your pancreas sees all the sugar and dumps a ton on insulin into your blood to process the sugar. The insulin keeps working until every last vestiage of sugar is gone from your blood. When you have low blood sugar, you body sends you the signal "Need food. No energy. Feed me."
And thus you feel hungry.
Same thing goes for eating a candy bar and *needing* another 30 minutes later.
Or I could be wrong.
transmitted by Michael on January 11, 2003 09:37 AMmmmmmmmmm, general tso's, now you've gotten me hungry :)
transmitted by trout on January 11, 2003 11:57 AMyummy Orange Chicken.... I think I will order some now.... alright tomorrow.
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transmitted by mike on January 11, 2003 05:38 PMTryptophan, I say. Gotta be tryptophan.
(Actually, I don't know. Using words like that make me seem intelligent. That's my secret. Don't tell.)
transmitted by Mike #3 on January 11, 2003 08:09 PMIs it because of the dog meat?
Oh! That's Korean cuisine isn't it?
transmitted by naladahc on January 12, 2003 05:27 AMhardy har har
yeah, i know you're just kidding
how come the british never get made fun of or africans? they eat weird stuff too.
I've concluded that any good meal makes you sleepy afterwards... but the hungry an hour later thing? Still a mystery.
I don't think Chinese food has Tryptophane, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Nala, don't knock Korean food, it rawks. :P
Every cuisine has its black sheep, so to speak... to quote Mike Meyers, "I believe that most [insert cuisine type here] food was created on a dare."
transmitted by courtney on January 12, 2003 06:17 PMI took a picture of a missing cat poster in Chinatown in New York City last time I was there ... http://members.cox.net/tjhanton/images/nyc18.jpg ... it actually says on the poster "Please Do Not Eat"
transmitted by tj on January 12, 2003 07:17 PMthat was tooooooo funny
:P
transmitted by Jack on January 12, 2003 07:26 PM