1, principle of keeping in good health after meals
Rinse your mouth frequently: China's traditional medical theory has always attached importance to the influence of dietary hygiene habits on people's health. Zhang Zhongjing, an ancient medical scientist, pointed out: "Washing your teeth after meals makes your teeth unbeaten and tastes good." Gargling after meals can keep the mouth moist and clean, stimulate the taste buds on the tongue, enhance the taste function, effectively prevent and treat oral and dental diseases, protect the mouth and teeth, and help stimulate appetite and digestion and absorption.
Slowly rubbing the abdomen: A healthy body can't do without exercise, and there are also suitable activities after meals. Sun Simiao, a great doctor in the Tang Dynasty, suggested doing some light exercise after meals. He said: "After eating, rub your face and abdomen with your hands and let the body fluids flow through. It's time to go after eating. " It is also required to "rub your stomach hundreds of times, knock your teeth 36 times, and fill your mouth with things." As long as we can do this, "eating is easy to benefit people, so that people can eat and drink, and end up dead." If you "lie down when you are full", you will "not become sick after eating, but become sick." Exercise should form a habit and become a daily item. Massage the abdomen after meals can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and abdominal blood circulation, but also enhance gastrointestinal function. It can also be used as a benign stimulus, which is beneficial to the regulation of central nervous system function and plays a role in fitness and disease prevention.
Walk slowly: After massaging the abdomen, we can do some other exercises. After supper walk a mile. Usually, people with little activity, especially those who work at their desks for a long time, and those who are obese or have hyperacidity, can walk for 20 minutes after meals, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, facilitate the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice and the digestion and absorption of food, and be beneficial to their health. "Pillow China" records: "Eating only a hundred steps is beneficial to people." It is also said that chewing slowly can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and contribute to the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice and the digestion and absorption of food. However, don't walk quickly after dinner, don't do strenuous exercise, and don't sit or lie down immediately.
Listening to music: Beautiful music is different from noisy noise and has the function of regulating emotions. Appreciating soft, bright and beautiful music after meals is of great benefit to the human body. "Shou Shi Bao Yuan" said: "The spleen is good at music, and the sound will move." Taoism also has the saying that "the spleen must be sharpened when listening to music." Listening to soft and fresh music can accompany you to dinner. And listening to music after dinner can cultivate your temperament, make your vitality return to the Sect, and forget your troubles.
2. What can't I eat after dinner?
Avoid eating fruit after meals. Many people like to eat some fruit after meals, thinking that it can supplement the carbohydrates and trace elements needed by the human body and solve the greasy problem. In fact, this is a wrong living habit. After food enters the stomach, it needs to be digested 1 ~ 2 hours. If you eat fruit immediately after a meal, it will be blocked by the food you have eaten before, resulting in the fruit not being digested normally.
Avoid smoking after meals. "A cigarette after a meal is better than a living fairy" is a famous saying of smokers. However, the results showed that gastrointestinal peristalsis increased after meals, blood circulation was accelerated, and smoking ability was the strongest. At this time, when smoking a cigarette, the harmful substances in the cigarette are easier to enter the blood than usual, and the toxic amount is greater than the sum of 10 cigarettes smoked at ordinary times.
Avoid drinking strong tea after meals. Because the tannins contained in tea combine with protein and iron in food to form colloid or precipitate which is not easily absorbed, iron deficiency anemia and protein's disease may occur in the long run.
Avoid eating sugar after meals. Sugar is easily converted into fat, which leads to obesity. Sugar can also reduce the function of islet secretion and promote the occurrence of diabetes.
Avoid drinking soda after meals. After soda water enters the stomach, it dilutes gastric juice, affects digestion, reduces appetite, produces carbon dioxide, increases gastric pressure, and leads to acute gastric dilatation.
Avoid drinking water after meals. After drinking water immediately, the internal pressure in the stomach will increase, which will make the food in the stomach enter the small intestine before it can be digested. In addition, diluting gastric juice after drinking water weakens the digestive ability of gastric juice, which is not conducive to gastric acid sterilization and is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases.
3. What do you want to sleep after dinner?
1 is the normal reaction of the body.
Sleeping after meals is a natural reaction of the human body. After eating, the vagus nerve related to sleep will be excited to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help the normal digestion of food. Vagus nerve can promote digestion and make people want to sleep.
2. Decreased blood oxygen content in the brain.
After eating, for normal digestion and absorption, the body needs a lot of blood to flow to the digestive system to enhance the digestive function of the digestive system. Blood supply to the head, heart and other parts of the body will be reduced. At this time, the human body is prone to drowsiness. But this statement has not been confirmed by scientists at present.
3. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the body increases.
After dinner, the digestive organs of the human body digest. At this time, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the body will increase in a short time, which will lead to fatigue of the brain nervous system and make people want to sleep.
4. The digestive system is weak.
If the digestive function of the body is weak, it may also cause you to want to sleep after eating. When the yang in the body is insufficient and the spleen and stomach are weak, digesting the same food requires more blood oxygen participation, which makes people want to sleep easily. If this sleepiness has affected normal life, you should seek medical advice immediately.
5, appetite hormone secretion
When eating, the human brain secretes a substance called appetite hormone, which can participate in regulating the sleep-wake cycle of the human body. After eating, a large amount of glucose in the human body will reduce the secretion of this appetite hormone and make people feel sleepy.