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What actions or behaviors help digestion after meals?
1, massage the abdomen

After lunch, you can massage your abdomen properly with your hands, which can help food digest well and achieve the purpose of health preservation and disease prevention.

When massaging the abdomen, it can effectively promote the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, enhance the blood flow of abdominal muscles and intestinal smooth muscles, and increase the muscles of the gastrointestinal wall, thus effectively promoting the digestion and absorption of ingested food, which is also an important factor to promote defecation and prevent constipation, especially suitable for some people who are troubled by constipation.

In addition, when massaging the abdomen, it can also stimulate the peripheral nervous system to some extent. Regular massage can also make the capillaries of the abdominal wall relatively unobstructed, which can make fat easier to consume, thus achieving the purpose of slimming.

When massaging the abdomen, you can cross your fingers, then put them on both sides of the navel, use a little force at the root of the palm, and then massage the abdomen clockwise and counterclockwise along the navel to feel the fever in the abdominal cavity. The hand movements must not be too heavy to avoid discomfort.

Step 2 take a walk

There is an old saying: "Take a walk after dinner and live to ninety-nine". This shows the benefits of taking a walk after dinner. However, taking a walk after a meal is not done immediately after a meal, but after a moderate nap 10 minutes, you can take a moderate walk, breathe fresh air and take a leisurely walk, which can effectively help digestion and lose weight.

At the same time, walking after meals is also very beneficial to increase the energy consumption of the body and promote the burning of excess fat in the body, especially for some people who have a weight loss plan. Sticking to walking after meals can promote fat consumption, control diet and avoid getting fat.

In addition, for some workers who sit at their desks for a long time, walking after meals is an effective way to eliminate tension and relieve fatigue. Because noon is an important stage connecting the preceding with the following, only by maintaining a relaxed nervous state can the cerebral cortex be relaxed, thus activating the nerves and facing the afternoon work in a fuller state.

Second, the precautions for after-meal health care

1, don't loosen your belt after meals.

After a hearty lunch, many people feel that their belts are a little tight, so they habitually loosen them for comfort. Then loosen the belt immediately after meals, which will reduce the intra-abdominal pressure, weaken the support capacity of the digestive tract, lead to an increase in the load of the digestive tract, and also lead to accelerated gastrointestinal peristalsis, destroy normal digestive steps, and cause gastrointestinal discomfort and other symptoms.

Don't drink tea right away.

Many people will enjoy the fragrance of tea after lunch, thinking that drinking tea can help digestion. However, drinking tea after meals is very harmful. Because the food in the stomach has not been fully digested after lunch, drinking tea at this time will lead to a decrease in the concentration of gastric acid, thus diluting the gastric juice and affecting the normal digestion of food.

In addition, tea also contains caffeine and tannic acid, which will combine with iron and protein in food after being ingested by human body to form substances that are not easily digested by human body, which will damage gastrointestinal function for a long time.

Don't eat fruit right away.

In order to lose weight, many people choose to eat several staple foods at lunch and then eat some fruits immediately after dinner to achieve the purpose of losing weight. But eating fruit immediately after lunch will cause the fruit to stay in the stomach for a long time and form flatulence over time. For some people with poor gastrointestinal digestive function, it will aggravate the normal gastrointestinal digestive system and affect the normal digestion of food. Therefore, don't eat fruit immediately after lunch. It is best to wait until after 1 hour.