1, don't eat fruit immediately after meals.
Myth: 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.
Possible results: After a long time, it will cause symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea or constipation.
Cause: 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 ate before, resulting in the fruit not being digested normally.
Solution: It is best to eat fruit between meals. In addition to increasing the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, it is not a big problem for normal people. It should be noted that in addition to vitamins and other nutrients, fruits also contain more dietary fiber, which affects the digestion and absorption of some nutrients, such as trace elements. Therefore, it is best to eat fruit between meals. For people with elevated blood sugar, it is especially not recommended to eat fruit immediately after meals.
Don't drink strong tea after meals.
Myth: People in China love tea, so drinking tea with them seems to be an all-round service. However, drinking strong tea before and after meals is very bad behavior!
Possible results: indigestion, iron deficiency anemia.
Reason: Drinking tea after meals will dilute gastric juice, affect the digestion of food, and affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients. If tea contains theophylline, theophylline can interfere with the absorption of protein and trace elements, especially when trace elements such as calcium, zinc and iron coexist with theophylline, the absorption rate will decrease obviously. Tea contains a lot of tannic acid. Drinking tea after meals will combine undigested protein with tannic acid in the stomach, forming indigestible precipitate, which will affect the absorption of protein. In addition, tea will hinder the absorption of iron, and long-term drinking may even lead to iron deficiency anemia.
Solution: Have soup and water when eating. This helps to dissolve nutrients in food and is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of small intestine. If you don't replenish water before or during meals, the massive secretion of digestive juice after meals will make body fluids lose water, which is bound to cause thirst. Drinking water again at this time will dilute gastric juice and affect digestion. When drinking tea after meals, you should change the strong tea into light tea. Don't expect strong tea to reduce drowsiness, which will affect the absorption of nutrients.
Don't take a bath immediately after meals.
Myth: Some people like to take a bath after meals, thinking that taking a bath after meals can promote blood circulation and contribute to good health. Some people sweat when they eat, and like to wash their hands after meals. Some people hate the smell of fumes in restaurants. But taking a bath immediately after a meal has a great influence on your health.
Possible results: affect the digestive function of the stomach.
Reason: Taking a bath after meals will increase the blood flow on the body surface and decrease the blood flow in the gastrointestinal tract, thus weakening the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract and causing indigestion.
Solution: Take a bath and choose the right time. Scientifically speaking, don't wash when you are hungry before meals, which is easy to cause hypoxia and temporary anemia. It can't be washed immediately after a meal, and it is best to wash it for more than an hour after a meal. Taking a bath before going to bed will eliminate the fatigue of the day and make you fall asleep easily.
4. Don't take a walk immediately after dinner.
Myth: There is an old saying in China-Walk a hundred paces after a meal, and live to be ninety-nine.
Possible outcome: indigestion.
Reason: For some people, "walking in a hundred steps" after a meal will not live to "99", and it will also affect the absorption of nutrients in the digestive tract because of the increase of exercise.
Solution: Different people should be treated differently. Take a hundred steps after meals, which is suitable for people who usually have little activity, work at their desks for a long time, are obese or have excessive gastric acid secretion; Don't go after meals, mainly refers to people who are in poor health and sick, especially those with gastroptosis. Not only can't take a walk after meals, but also lie on your back 10 minutes.
5. Don't relax your pants headband after meals.
Myth: Many people will be flustered if they eat too much, and often relax their belt buckles, thinking that this can make their stomachs feel much more comfortable and reduce their "work pressure". Really? This will make your stomach uncomfortable!
Possible result: gastroptosis.
Cause: After overeating, the stomach is in an expanding state, the movement of the stomach is slow, and the stomach is not easy to empty. It's useless to sit, stand or lie down at this time.
Solution: Walking slowly can help the stomach to move and empty as soon as possible, so walking slowly is a more appropriate choice. Walking slowly after a meal can promote peristalsis around the stomach and empty the food in the stomach as soon as possible, but you can't do strenuous exercise, otherwise a full stomach will stretch and aggravate discomfort.
6. Don't drive immediately after dinner.
Myth: Many people know that you can't drive after drinking, but do you know that you shouldn't drive after dinner?
Possible consequences: car accident.
Reason: If you can't hold your stomach after eating too much, it will be difficult to turn. If you need an emergency turn, but the steering wheel won't turn, the car can only hit directly. In addition, gastrointestinal digestion of food after meals requires a lot of blood, resulting in temporary cerebral ischemia, which leads to operational errors and car accidents.