Does your diet influence how well you sleep?

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/07/does-your-diet-influence-how-well-you-sleep/?iid=hl-main-lead     / poor sleeping habits can lead to overeating unhealthy diets keep you up at night getting enough sleep and eating right are well-known behaviors for good health balanced diet best ways maintain healthy weight 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night better health studies have linked lack of sleep to overeating how diet influences sleep patterns researchers Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania investigated how diets correlate with sleep patterns studied data from the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES involving 4,548 people looked at how much sleep the participants reported getting each night detailed report of their daily diet study very short sleep patterns were defined as less than five hours a night, short sleep was five to six hours a night standard sleep was 7 to 8 hours long sleep was nine or more hours a night different sleep categories also had distinct diet patterns  short sleepers consumed the most calories followed by normal sleepers then very short sleepers long sleepers consumed the least calories normal sleepers, however, showed the highest food variety in their diets very short sleepers had the least variation in what they ate varied diet tends to be a marker for good health since it includes multiple sources of nutrients very short sleepers drank less tap water and consumed fewer total carbohydrates and lycopene, found in red and orange-colored fruits and vegetables and high in cancer-fighting antioxidants, than people with other sleep patterns. Short sleepers tended to eat  less vitamin C tap water and selenium found in nuts, meat and shellfish consumption, but more lutein or zeaxanthin, which are found in green, leafy veggies. Long sleep was associated with consuming less theobromine, which is found in chocolate and tea, the saturated fat dodecanoic acid, choline found in eggs and fatty meats and total carbohydrates long sleepers also drank more alcohol /