Gastrointestinal diseases have become the main killer threatening human health. Due to the change of modern people's eating habits, more and more people will induce stomach diseases because of bad living habits and unhealthy eating styles.
Among the top 10 cancers in China, five common cancers are related to gastrointestinal tract. Once gastrointestinal problems occur, it will directly affect health, reduce the body's absorption of nutrients and induce many chronic diseases.
Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, lying down immediately after eating is easy to cause stomach problems, reduce the digestion and absorption function of the stomach, and feel flatulence, acid reflux, nausea and vomiting.
Many people think that lying down immediately after a meal will make the body fat run down, and the abdomen and buttocks will get fatter and fatter.
Relevant experts found that lying down after meals not only helps to gain weight, but also helps the stomach.
Here, lying down immediately after a meal does not require you to fall asleep immediately, but to use a lying position to improve the digestion and peristalsis of the stomach and fall asleep immediately after a meal. Because of the slow metabolism, food accumulates in the stomach for a long time, which will increase the burden on the stomach.
You can choose to lie flat with your upper body raised, which will not easily cause esophageal reflux, but will make food better digested and absorbed, accelerate fat metabolism and burn, and maintain intestinal health.
(1) Don't lie down immediately after eating too much.
Proper lying down after meals can improve the function of gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestion, and can also effectively prevent gastroesophageal reflux. This practice is only suitable for people who are 70-80% full.
If you eat too much, you'd better not lie flat immediately, otherwise it will increase the pressure on your heart and blood vessels. If you eat too much, there will be too much food in your stomach. Immediately after lying flat, the esophagus will contact with gastric juice, which is prone to gastroesophageal reflux.
The most correct way is to stand for 5~ 10 minutes before lying flat.
(2) Don't lie down and sleep.
Lying flat after meals can relieve gastroesophageal reflux and improve gastrointestinal peristalsis and digestive function, but sleeping immediately after meals will affect the metabolic process of the body, make the stomach and intestines chaotic, accumulate a lot of food and increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
When people are full, their gastrointestinal function is extremely strong. When they sleep, the metabolism of organs in the body is slow, they are at rest, their gastrointestinal peristalsis is slow, and their digestive ability is reduced. Some protein can't be absorbed, leaving too much in the stomach. Under the action of anaerobic bacteria, a large amount of ammonia and toxic substances will be produced, which will stimulate the health of liver and kidney.
You can lie down after eating, but don't go to bed right away. Sleeping after a short rest is more beneficial to your health.
1. Don't drink tea immediately after meals.
Tea, as one of the three major functional drinks in the world, is one of many ways of keeping in good health. The nutrients in tea can provide energy and heat for the body, and tea can also effectively promote the secretion of gastric acid, so that food can be digested and absorbed faster.
It is not advisable to drink tea immediately after meals. Drinking tea immediately after meals will lead to a chemical reaction between protein in food and tea, which will produce solidified substances and hinder the absorption of protein and iron. In the past, people became thinner and thinner, their immunity decreased, and their risk of illness increased greatly.
Don't smoke immediately after meals.
"A cigarette after a meal is better than a living immortal" is the mantra of many old smokers, but I don't know how harmful it is to my health. Smoking immediately after meals will increase the burden on the stomach.
Just after dinner, all the blood will run into the stomach. At this time, smoking and smoke easily enter the blood circulation after entering the stomach, affecting blood flow, inducing cardiovascular diseases, and increasing lung pressure and burden.
3. You can't exercise immediately after meals.
Take a hundred steps after dinner and live to ninety-nine. This regimen is only suitable for eating less or 30 minutes after meals. Exercise immediately after meals affects the absorption of food, which is not good for health.
Exercise immediately after meals makes the blood supply in the stomach insufficient, which is not conducive to the digestion of food. A large amount of food gathered in the stomach can easily lead to gastroptosis and affect the body's absorption of nutrients.
4. You can't take a bath immediately after a meal.
After eating, the body is slightly hot and the pores are open. Many people choose to take a hot bath to make themselves comfortable.
Taking a hot bath immediately after a meal will increase the blood flow accordingly, which will increase the pressure on the blood vessel wall and induce hypertension. The blood circulation of the digestive tract will also be affected, which will reduce the digestive ability and make the gastric mucosa contract sharply.
Don't drink cold drinks immediately after meals.
Drinking it immediately after a meal will cause a lot of cold and moisture to invade the stomach, which will cause great irritation to the throat and stomach, leading to severe contraction of the digestive tract, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and in the long run, it will also induce other chronic diseases such as indigestion.