Do You Feel Sleepy After Eating Rice?

I feel sleepy everytime I eat lots of food. I believe it has something to do with our body trying to digest the huge amount of food that we took. With that being said, the brain then loses some amounts of oxygen needed to keep us awake.

Rice is a food that is high in carbohydrates and eating food high in carbohydrates raises two brain chemicals that make people sleepier. This could be the reason why after eating rice you become extremely sleepy. I know someone who said that she sleeps long hours when she consumes more rice than usual. She is diabetic. Foods with high carbohydrates would raise her blood sugar levels and cause her to be sleepy too.

I don't fall asleep after eating something, but if yes I also won't go to sleep. The digestion during the sleep will make us become fatter. You should check if the rice you're using is good, because this phenomenon is abnormal.

hi nikhil_sun , my dear riend, i dont think that i feel sleepy after ating rice. i know that rice is full of carbohydrates but if you eat too full, you will feel sleepy and i dont eat too full. if you eat less, it is digested easily and you will not even feel sleepy and all . if you sleep after eating, then your food is not digested also. you woill have digestion problem and you will also feel that your body has stsarted producing acid. becasue if you immediately sleep after eating, body aroduces acid and the food is not digested. i eat a balanced food, but not too much that i feel like sleeping.

yes i feel sleepy after eating rice and curd ,whether it is any time ,afternoon or night. its not for the rice we are getting sleepy,it is curd/buttermilk i think we are getting sleep. as it will be cold and creates coolness in our body,we feel relaxed after eating it and gets sleep i think. we will feel drouzy,when we don;t sleep after having curd/buttermilk. as u know most indians eat curd/buttermilk with rice,it creates sleepyness to us and we gets rest ,in our busy life. so we should not avoid to take curd daily. we will get sleep ,not only with rice but after all meals! As far as I know it's because our brain concentrates on the digestive system(?), but before doing so, the brain has to "switch off" the other part, that's why we are not able to study or do other work, after having meal and we get sleepy.

I am sleepy whether I am full or not

i do feel very sleepy after eating rice ,maybe there is some ingredient in rice which makes us lazy and lethargic,rice is a staple part of our diet,without which our meal is considered incomplete.

yeah like kinda lethargic.

I feel asleep after eating rice, i think in rice found carbohydrate makes us not powerful.

No I never feel sleepy after eating rice. I guess it could be from having alot of carbs in it.