1, go to bed before meals
In the past, people used to have a rest after lunch, because most people felt headache, brain swelling, limb weakness and general laziness. This is because human blood has a relatively constant index. When people eat, the blood flow will be more concentrated in the digestive system, which will reduce the blood supply to the brain and body. As a result, the brain and limbs can't get enough oxygen and nutrition, and the metabolites can't be eliminated in time, thus causing a series of uncomfortable symptoms. Studies have shown that taking a break for half an hour before meals is more effective than sleeping for two hours after meals, and it can greatly improve the work efficiency in the afternoon.
2. Drink soup before meals
As the saying goes, drinking soup before meals does not require a doctor to prescribe. This statement has certain scientific truth. If you drink some soup before eating, it will relieve the sudden intense stimulation on an empty stomach and protect your stomach. Just like doing some preparatory actions before exercise, it can mobilize the whole digestive system and make the digestive glands secrete enough digestive juice to digest food, which is more conducive to the absorption and utilization of food nutrition.
Step 3 eat fruit before meals
Because food needs to be digested 1~2 hours before it can be discharged slowly, and fruit is a monosaccharide food, which is easy to absorb and does not need to stay in the stomach. If you eat fruit after a meal and stay in your stomach for too long, it will easily lead to bloating, diarrhea or constipation, which will lead to digestive dysfunction over time. Therefore, it is most appropriate to eat fruit before meals 1 hour.
4. Take a quick walk before meals.
There used to be a saying: walk a hundred steps after dinner and live to ninety-nine. However, according to scientific analysis, it is not entirely correct to take a walk immediately after a meal, because the food after a meal is concentrated in the stomach and needs a lot of digestive juice and blood to participate in digestion. If you walk immediately after a meal, blood needs to be transported to other parts of the body, so the blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract is relatively reduced, and food cannot be fully digested. The latest research shows that if you change your past habits and take a short brisk walk before a full meal, you can quickly eliminate harmful blood lipids in your body, which is of great benefit to preventing heart disease.
5. Brush your teeth before meals
The formation of dental caries is mainly the result of chemical reaction between tartar and sugar in food, forming acidic substances to corrode teeth. When people eat, tartar has reacted with sugar in food, and acidic substances have been formed. It's too late to brush your teeth. Only by removing tartar before meals can the formation of acidic substances be significantly reduced, thus keeping teeth clean and healthy. Of course, brushing your teeth after meals is helpful to remove food residues, which is also necessary.
6. How to drink soup before meals
"Drink soup before meals. It is better than a dose of good medicine. This statement has scientific basis. This is because, from the mouth, throat, esophagus to the stomach, it is like a passage, which is the only way for food. Drinking a few mouthfuls of soup (or a little water) before eating is equivalent to adding some "lubricants" to this digestive tract, so that food can be swallowed smoothly, preventing dry and hard food from irritating the mucosa of the digestive tract, protecting the digestive tract and reducing the occurrence of digestive tract tumors.
It is also beneficial to drink soup from time to time with meals. Because it helps to dilute and stir food, it is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food in the gastrointestinal tract. If you don't drink soup before meals, you will be thirsty after meals because of excessive secretion of gastric juice. Drinking water at this time will dilute gastric juice and affect the absorption and digestion of food. Therefore, some nutritionists believe that developing the habit of drinking soup often before meals can also reduce the occurrence of esophagitis, gastritis, esophageal cancer and gastric cancer. At the same time, it is found that people who often drink all kinds of soup, milk and soybean milk are also the easiest to keep the digestive tract healthy. It's different to soak in dry rice or hard steamed buns when eating. Because when we chew food, we not only have to chew it up to swallow it easily, but more importantly, we have to moisten it with saliva, which is produced by continuous chewing. Saliva contains a variety of digestive enzymes, which have physiological functions such as helping digestion, absorption and detoxification, and are very beneficial to health. And the soup for soaking rice is full of water. Soft and easy to swallow, people are often lazy to chew and swallow food quickly without saliva digestion, which increases the digestive burden of the stomach. Over time, it is easy to cause stomach problems and even stomach cancer. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink soup and soak rice often.
Patients with chronic atrophic gastritis and gastric ulcer should not drink soup before meals: because they secrete less gastric acid than healthy people. If they eat too much soup before meals, it will dilute the gastric juice, further affect the digestion of food, cause stomach discomfort, and thus aggravate the condition.
People with more gastric acid secretion should not drink soup before meals: soup (chicken soup, concentrated broth) can stimulate more gastric acid secretion, which is easy to cause heartburn, hiccups and other discomfort, so people who are always unwell such as pantothenic acid should also drink less broth. In addition to eating less soup or not drinking soup before meals, drinking a lot of soup during meals or drinking a lot of soup after meals is not suitable for people with gastroptosis, because it will make the stomach heavier. Even if you want to drink soup, it is recommended to drink it slowly and in small quantities, eat more vegetables, or it is best to drink it half an hour after meals, with a small bowl 100 ~ 200ml.