The answer is: no! It is a rumor to gain weight in bed after meals.
A rest after a meal helps digestion.
According to the research of relevant departments, after a meal, whether sitting standing or lying down, the calorie intake is similar. Sitting and resting after a meal, or lying down for a while, will not make you gain more meat, and we often feel sleepy after a meal, because the blood supply to the brain is insufficient, and all the blood is concentrated in the digestion of the stomach.
Just after eating, the stomach needs to concentrate blood to digest food. If you do strenuous exercise again or do some corresponding mental work, the blood in your stomach will die. If you can't concentrate for a long time, the blood supply to the stomach will decrease, and the mechanical function will decrease, causing indigestion and gastrointestinal discomfort.
Not only will we not gain weight after meals, but it will also be unhealthy for our health. On the contrary, if you rest within half an hour after a meal, you can concentrate your blood on gastrointestinal digestion, which is helpful for the utilization and absorption of food. If you want to achieve the corresponding fitness standards through physical exercise, you should give your stomach at least half an hour to digest and absorb. Therefore, taking a rest after meals will not make you gain more weight, and there will be no corresponding physical harm. It will be of great help to the digestive tract.
Don't get me wrong, it's ok to lie down and rest after dinner, but don't go to bed right away.
Just finished eating, I am in a period of vigorous stomach and intestines. If I sleep during this period, most of my organs will be suspended and rest, and the peristalsis of my stomach will be reduced, which will affect my normal digestion. Some protein can't be better absorbed by my stomach, so many things will appear when I store it in my stomach, and these things will also stimulate my liver, cause digestive disorders in my brain, and the absorption of nutrients is also very problematic, which will bring many unhealthy factors.
Whether you eat lunch, breakfast or dinner, you should keep your body balanced and don't eat too much.
Generally speaking, it is best for our body to have a full stomach of 8 points, and even if we can lie down after meals, we should choose a rest posture, especially 10, which is not good for our health. This is because if there is too much food in the stomach, it is easy to cause the test tube in the stomach to flow into the mouth when lying down. It is unhealthy for the Standing Committee of Yun Qi to manage reflux.
Our stomach acid plays a decisive role in digesting food, at the same time, it also plays a role in sterilization and anti-inflammation, and protects the safety of the stomach. The composition of gastric acid is hydrochloric acid, one of the three strong acids, and we may not have gastric mucosal protection. This can accommodate the normal operation of gastric acid. If food reflux occurs, it will erode the mucosa of these gastrointestinal tracts, causing mucosal congestion, swelling and even ulcers.
If you want to lie down after a meal, you'd better make your body at an angle of 45~60 degrees, just like a rocking chair.