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What Exactly Is a Food Coma, and What Causes It? We Asked Dietitians

Food comas are a common experience—here's what can trigger them (and how to prevent them). Medically reviewed by Jessica ...
Food & Wine

Research Shows Food Comas Are Real — and They Do More Than Just Make You Sleepy

Merlyn is an editor of news and trending content for Food & Wine's news vertical. Her writing focuses on the intersection of pop culture and food, including food trends, celebrity news, food ...
Popular Mechanics

We May Finally Have a ‘Cure’ for Coma. It Could Redefine the Line Between Life and Death.

It happened at a music festival in California in 2018. “I think I was probably 28,” says Daniel Toker, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles ...
Time

Awaking from a Coma: What Did the Doctors Miss?

Three years ago, Dr Steven Laureys, a neurologist at the University of Liege in Belgium, examined a comatose 43-year-old Belgian patient, Rom Houben, who for the past 23 years had been assumed by ...
WECT

‘It’s a marathon, not a sprint’: Father of first responder shares his son is still in a coma more than a week after motorcycle accident

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A man who is used to saving others’ lives is now fighting for his own life. 25-year-old Christopher Anselmo is an AEMT in Brunswick County and was involved in a motorcycle ...

NYC boy shot in head outside Dunkin' Donuts is in coma, brain-dead, family says

Authorities are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was shot in the head in the parking lot of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Queens ...