SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF CHEESE

The British Cheese Board has claimed victory over the old superstition that eating cheese before bedtime will give your nightmares. According to their highly scientific and completely unbiased experiments, 72% of volunteers who ate 20 grams of cheese 30 minutes before going to bed reported sleeping very well each night of the week-long trial, with not a single nightmare reported during the entire week. One of the “scientists” who led this project went so far as to claim that cheese actually helps you sleep. “One of the amino acids in cheese - tryptophan - has been shown to reduce stress and induce sleep,” said Dr. Judith Bryans of the British Dairy Council, “so cheese may actually help you have a good night’s sleep.” The only mildy interesting result to come out of this study was that two-thirds of volunteers who ate cheddar before bedtime had dreams about celebrities. (sky.com)