And in Spain people take siesta. And it makes sense, our body needs rest to digest food. That's why we get food coma. Every one not just children should do this.
I’ve found that avoiding carbs and sugary items in particular prevents me from feeling a significant performance drop.
I'm from the north and I know no one here who takes siesta.
In the south, it's also becoming less common with the change from rural to urban living and from outdoors to office jobs.
So, I'm definitely going for weather as the reason for the tradition and not any timezone shift. And that also means that office work and air conditioning should reduce this practice over time.
But I only know a handful of people who actually take naps here in the afternoon. Sometimes yeah, but if you work in a typical office/startup, you can probably count the people who take a nap after lunch on one hand.
People with normal working hours don't take siesta.
There is a pause from 12pm to 2pm.
Like many Mediterranean cultures, the people like to appreciate family/friends time and food and they always make sure to make those a priority. In other terms, not rich, but chill laid off people.
Overwork culture have no place and society doesn't encourage that in general. In my opinion, for two reasons 1) it's not a competitive society as in China or India, as there is enough resources for everyone. 2) Hard work is not properly rewarded as in the USA/EU, as the country suffers from corruption and it has failed to develop a modern meritocratic economy, so far.
It makes sense. Digesting lunch takes a lot of energy from the body. But if you’ve had a good breakfast, you’ll have plenty of energy available from breakfast to keep your brain active. And you can eat less for lunch, too.
Personally, the bigger breakfast I have, the faster and more hungry I get around lunch. If I eat a big breakfast I’ll be ravenous by lunch. The only negative symptoms I experience after lunch happen if I eat a huge lunch.
If you get food coma because your body is lacking energy to digest lunch, you'll just get food coma after breakfast then, because you'll be lacking energy to digest that.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain
It's in the same time zone, CET/UTC+1, as Germany (which is east of 0˚) even though Spain is west of 0˚.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain#Criticism_of_the...
(See also France, which is mostly centred on 0˚, so probably 'should' be in UTC+0, but is in UTC+1—presumably to also be in sync with Germany.)
None of it, obviously. It's an adaptation to the weather. The weather doesn't change if you give different labels to different parts of the day.
Yes, it was changed by Germany while they were occupying France during World War 2.
Most people are happy with it now though, and during the recent talks about whether to keep summer time or not in Europe, it appeared the opinion in France was mostly to stay on summer time year-round, so UTC+2. Which means more darkness in the mornings during winter, but keeping long evenings in summer and improving a bit the short evenings of winter.
"Food coma" is from carbs/sugar. :)
Edit: to satisfy my friendly HN editors. :)
See "satiety index":
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiety_value
you: "It's not normal"
pick one.
I just tried it myself.
And it did help a lot to sleep after food. Limiting in take of sugar/carbs does help. However, personally going on diet like this does NOT suite me. I rather eat the food I want to eat and rest a bit, than watch what I need to eat.
You: "Food coma" is from carbs/sugar. It's not normal :)
Some foods give me (then+now) something indistinguishable from a food coma. Wheat is a big one. I'm fine after eating wheat-free carbs.
We aren't lions eating once every few days.
As a kid, I had one hour and a half in total in two breaks. Children need to play and exercise. Without it children are hyperactive between 4 walls.