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  2. Research Shows Food Comas Are Real — and They Do More Than ...

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    Picture this: you have the day off, you’ve just wrapped up a festive feast with your family, and everyone mutually agrees to go their separate ways so they can sleep for an hour or two — no ...

  3. 3 "Intimate" Benefits of Ginger for Men - AOL

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    If you like to use ginger in your cooking, you might be in luck. Ginger is a plant with some pretty powerful medicinal qualities. ... Unfortunately, alcohol does not make you last longer in bed ...

  4. Postprandial somnolence - Wikipedia

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    An oil painting of a young woman having a siesta, or an afternoon nap, which usually occurs after the mid-day meal.. Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as food coma, after-dinner dip, or "the itis") is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal.

  5. Ginger - Wikipedia

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    Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. [2] It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades.

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  7. Gingerol - Wikipedia

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    When ginger is dried or mildly heated, gingerol undergoes a dehydration reaction forming shogaols, which are about twice as pungent as gingerol. [3] This explains why dried ginger is more pungent than fresh ginger. [4] Ginger also contains [8]-gingerol, [10]-gingerol, [5] and [12]-gingerol, [6] collectively deemed gingerols.

  8. Does eating turkey really make you sleepy? The truth about ...

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    "If you're really stuffed, you're not going to sleep well," Mazarin tells TODAY.com. "So if you're going to stuff yourself, the earlier the better." Czerwony also recommended not eating past 6 p.m ...

  9. Zingiber - Wikipedia

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    Garden ginger's rhizome is the classic spice "ginger", and may be used whole, candied (known commonly as crystallized ginger), or dried and powdered. Other popular gingers used in cooking include cardamom and turmeric , [ 6 ] though neither of these examples is a "true ginger" – they belong to different genera in the family Zingiberaceae .