It is best to eat two hours before going to bed. It's not good for your health if you go to bed after dinner. Some people are used to "sleeping after eating", which is tantamount to "sleeping for illness". Because you go to sleep after eating, most tissues and organs of the body begin to enter a state of "rest" with slow metabolism, while the gastrointestinal tract is forced to be in a state of "intense work", resulting in local imbalance of the body. This not only affects sleep, but also easily leads to indigestion. "Sleeping after meals" will also slow down the gastrointestinal peristalsis, and some protein can't be digested and absorbed, so they stay in the intestine for a long time. Under the action of anaerobic bacteria, toxic substances such as amines, ammonia and indole will be produced, which will increase the burden on liver and kidney and stimulate the brain.

If you sleep immediately after dinner, the body with less activity at night consumes less calories, which is easy to cause obesity; It can also cause the increase of blood cholesterol, especially low-density and very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is easy to deposit on the arterial wall, causing atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension. Eating lotus seed porridge can promote sleep.