Nutrition: Specific Diets & Foods

Why does turkey make you so sleepy?

You have just scarfed down several pounds of turkey, six scoops of yams, a terrine full of mashed potatoes, eight ounces of tangy cranberry sauce, half a green been casserole, and several large hunks of pumpkin pie. And you wonder why you just fell asleep on the couch with the Dallas Cowboys pummeling their hapless opponent by forty-three points, as your uncle Howard drones on soporifically yet again about his chance encounter with Milton Berle on a Florida golf course five decades ago.