This post is inspired by the Tales of Peter Rabbit.  Most of what one needs to know about the link between nutrition and sleep is in this children's story.  Who knew that eating a massive amount of lettuce could make one sleepy?  But it's true! There are some foods which are in fact "soporific". One of the first casualties of stress is sleep.  How many of us turn into insomniacs when we're stressed or wake up in the middle of the night only to pace through the corridors of our mind until it's almost time to get up?