Recently I heard on the radio that some folks suffer from this common syndrome that affects them typically in the afternoons especially after a very heavy lunch. These lunches are either full of rice as part of the staple of the meal, or as most nutrition-conscious folks would say in its more commonly known name, "carbohydrates".
It seems that where there is a presence of a lot of carbohydrates, the blood in the body literally gushes and gravitates towards the stomach where supposedly all these carbohydrates are presently stored, and it attempts in some wonderful way to digest and break these carbohydrates down into energy for the general functioning of the body.
The problem comes almost immediately because as a result of all the blood that has gushed down to the stomach, there is very little blood (supposedly) elsewhere for the normal functioning of the other vital organs, in this case the brain, and thus in some strange convoluted manner, everyone tends to start to become sleepy. Some experience a mild droopy-eyelid syndrome, while others, enter straight into screen-saver mode.
Some folks have coined the phenomenon, "Afternoon Sleepy Syndrome" or ASS for short. Nobody really knows how it happens really as these are just some theories conjured perhaps by those who suffer severely from ASS. There are no specific remedies for this as far as I know, although some have said that strong coffee might help to mitigate the effects, but as usual results are inconclusive.
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