Every year during long holidays when driving long distances, drivers may feel tired and drowsy. Part of this may be due to eating a lot of starchy foods. Doctors reveal foods that should not be eaten before and during a trip to prevent drowsiness or fatigue.

4 Food Groups You Shouldn’t Eat While Traveling Long Distances

Flour foods, white bread, white rice, including sweets such as cakes, cookies, and sweet drinks 

because when eaten, it will make you sleepy because it is a type of carbohydrate that causes the pancreas to secrete a lot of insulin.

This causes blood sugar to rise and makes you feel drowsy. Moreover, the increased sugar requires vitamins such as vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin B3 to synthesize glucose for energy. Therefore, when the body lacks these vitamins, it causes fatigue and decreased strength, which makes you feel drowsy.

Avoid foods that are difficult to digest,

such  as meat, raw cabbage, cauliflower, beans, broccoli, onions, asparagus, potatoes, milk, and nuts, especially salted beans. These cause bloating or create gas in the stomach, causing the small intestine to not absorb all the nutrients. This results in food remaining in the large intestine undigested, โปรโมชั่น ufabet causing fermentation, leading to bloating and drowsiness.

Energy drinks: 

Although many people believe that energy drinks will make the body alert and not drowsy, they are the cause of neglecting to rest even more, making you even more tired and dizzy. They also cause your heart to beat faster, you to breathe more quickly, and you are at risk of high blood pressure, blood vessels, and heart disease in the long term.

Long-distance drivers should switch to drinking enough clean water, 6-8 glasses per day, or eating fresh fruit or drinking sour freshly squeezed juice that is a source of vitamin C without adding sugar or syrup, such as oranges, guava, raw mango or pineapple instead, because vitamin C will help fight fatigue from stress and anxiety while driving.