There has always been a saying in life: eat well in the morning, eat well at noon and eat less at night. Even later, it developed to simply not eating at night, saying that it can preserve health, reduce points, save money and get more at one stroke, but in fact, not eating at night will also cause great harm to the body. A young man in Hangzhou insisted on not eating dinner for five years with great perseverance, which made his stomach very fragile. Recently, he ate a little pepper and formed a huge ulcer.

1, insist on not eating dinner for five years.

Zhou Xiao is 29 years old. He works in a foreign company. He is usually very busy. He can't eat three meals a day on time, especially dinner. He often works overtime until late to remember that he didn't have dinner, so he ordered a takeaway.

Later, I occasionally came into contact with the "healthy concept" of "not eating after noon" on the Internet and began to skip dinner every day. "I think it's good not to eat dinner. You can kill two birds with one stone. First, I can lose weight. Second, I can stay healthy. Third, I can save time for eating and do more other things. "

In this way, Zhou Xiao silently insisted on not eating dinner for five years. Although he occasionally has stomach upset, he doesn't take it seriously. However, just last Tuesday, after eating some peppers, he suddenly had a terrible stomachache.

"Doctor, I ate some Chili at noon, and now my stomach hurts badly. I may have acute gastritis. " Zhou Xiao came to the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of a hospital in Zhejiang, and said quickly as soon as he entered the door.

After inquiring about the medical history in detail, the attending doctor suspected that Zhou Xiao's abdominal pain might not be as simple as acute gastritis, and suggested that he have a gastroscopy. Hearing this, Zhou Xiao felt a little disapproving, and even thought that the doctor made a mountain out of a molehill, but in the end he couldn't resist the doctor's persuasion and did a gastroscopy.

Zhou Xiao was shocked when the test results came out. He thought his stomach was healthy, but he didn't want the gastric mucosa to be congested and eroded in a large area. He has two huge ulcers (more than 2 cm in diameter), bleeding and brown blood scab.

At present, after treatment, Zhou Xiao's ulcer has gradually healed, and the pain has obviously improved.

"Modern people work at a fast pace, and many people pay little attention to their diet. Hungry is common. " Zhang Yuqing, director and chief physician of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of the hospital, said, "In addition to people like Zhou Xiao who don't eat dinner, some people rush to solve breakfast and lunch because they don't have time, but they eat too much dinner, which leads to excessive calorie intake. Coupled with lack of exercise and fat accumulation, it is easy to lead to excessive burden on the digestive system and frequent cardiovascular diseases."

The young man insisted on not eating after noon for health preservation, only to find that his stomach was destroyed into such a network diagram.

He mentioned that there are many ways to keep fit and lose weight by imitating the ancients on the Internet, such as "no food in the afternoon" in Buddhism and "crossing the valley" in Taoism. Modern people often fail to grasp the essence of ancient people's health preservation, blindly copy the practice of "not eating" and "not eating", forcing themselves to endure hunger, leading to many digestive system diseases, such as peptic ulcer.

Zhang Yuqing said that the ancient people "worked at sunrise and rested at sunset", and there was no big problem in following the habit of "not eating at noon". Modern people have a lot of activities at night and often don't go to bed until the early hours of the morning. If they don't eat dinner or even stop eating, they will lack energy, and people have stomach acid. If they don't eat for a long time, it may lead to gastric acid damage to gastric mucosa, and ulcers and other diseases will occur for a long time.

"Ulcers are not found in time, and more serious diseases such as gastrointestinal bleeding and ulcer perforation are likely to occur." He suggested that everyone should follow the principle of "eat well in the morning, eat well at noon and eat less at night". At the same time, try to choose light and easy-to-absorb food for dinner, don't consume too many calories, and eat less supper, thus reducing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.

He stressed that only three meals with balanced nutrition and a healthy and light diet can have a healthy stomach and "eat well".

2. The harm of not eating dinner

1, skipping meals hurts the stomach the most.

Skipping dinner for a long time is the easiest way to hurt your stomach. At night, when the human body is asleep, the stomach will secrete a lot of gastric acid. Because there is no dinner and no food in the stomach, gastric acid will directly damage the gastric mucosa, which will easily lead to stomach diseases such as gastric dysfunction and even increase the risk of gastric cancer.

2, not eating dinner affects sleep

Not eating dinner for a long time can easily affect the quality of sleep. If you don't eat dinner, the human body will feel hungry, and the discomfort of the body will easily be transmitted to the brain and affect sleep. At the same time, food residues can be reused on an empty stomach, which makes people still feel tired after waking up in the morning.

3, not eating dinner affects immunity.

People who don't eat dinner for a long time will have abnormal energy supply, which will easily lead to physical weakness, and the resistance to external virus damage will also decrease, resulting in low overall immunity.

4. skipping dinner is not conducive to losing weight.

Theoretically, skipping dinner helps to reduce calorie intake and help to lose weight, but skipping dinner to lose weight can easily make the body fall into morbid beauty, which is fundamentally not conducive to healthy weight loss. If you want to lose weight, you'd better eat some vegetables and fruits at night and cooperate with exercise.

5, do not eat dinner to promote detoxification

People will secrete a lot of digestive juice when they are hungry, and the toxins in the body can be excreted with the digestive juice. If you don't eat dinner, you can absorb the toxic digestive juice into the feces and excrete it, effectively promoting the body to detoxify.

6, not eating dinner is conducive to gastrointestinal rest.

At night, the human body is in a state of sleep, and various organs of the body are also in a rest stage. Not eating dinner at night can reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and give it a good rest. If you eat too much at night, it will affect your gastrointestinal rest and cause physical discomfort.