You should do these things after eating. Rinse your mouth. Zhang Zhongjing, an ancient physician, pointed out that "gargling after meals makes your teeth unbeaten and your mouth fragrant." Rinsing with light salt water or tea after meals can keep the mouth moist and clean, remove harmful bacteria and parasites in the mouth, enhance the taste buds on the tongue, effectively prevent and treat oral and dental diseases and help digestion.
2. Rub the abdomen with the navel as the center, and gently * * * the abdomen with the palm of your hand, 20 times clockwise and 20 times counterclockwise, with the slight heat in the abdomen as the degree. This can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and abdominal blood circulation, enhance gastrointestinal function, but also promote the regulation and play of central nervous system function, which is conducive to fitness and disease prevention.
3. Take a walk. It is not appropriate to take a walk immediately after a meal. You shouldn't walk fast or do strenuous exercise. It is best to take a walk after sitting for half an hour, and walk slowly, with 70 or 80 steps per minute. Slow eating after meals can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, contribute to the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice and the digestion and absorption of food, and prevent obesity. However, patients with gastroptosis should try to reduce walking to avoid increasing the burden on the stomach.
4. Listening to China's ancient medical book "Collection of Medical Prescriptions" said that "the spleen is good at music, and the silk and bamboo only smell its sound, and the spleen is grinding". It means that wonderful music (which varies according to people's hobbies) is a kind of benign music, which can regulate the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, urinary and endocrine systems. Moreover, listening to music after meals can cultivate temperament, make people's vitality return to primitive religion, and forget their troubles while enjoying it.
Busy day doing housework, the most time after dinner. What should I do during this time? For people who want to lose weight, this half hour is very important. Cooper Institute of Aerobic Exercise in the United States found that the absorption of human small intestine began about 30 minutes after dinner. Consciously exercising during this period can effectively lose weight. Therefore, it is advisable to use this time to clean the room and tidy up the desk or wardrobe, which can play a role in consuming calories.
In addition, drinking some water half an hour after a meal can strengthen the body's digestive function and help fat metabolism.
What to eat after dinner 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Avoid drinking strong tea after meals, because the tannins contained in tea combine with protein and iron in food, resulting in hard-to-absorb colloids or precipitated substances, which may lead to iron deficiency anemia and protein's diseases in the long run.
4. Avoid eating sugar after meals, which is easy to turn into fat and cause obesity. Sugar can also reduce the function of islet secretion and promote the occurrence of diabetes.
5. Avoid drinking soda water after meals to dilute gastric juice, affect digestion, reduce appetite, produce carbon dioxide, increase intragastric pressure, and lead to acute gastric dilatation.
6. Avoid drinking water immediately after meals. After drinking water, the internal pressure in the stomach will increase, so that the food in the stomach can only be digested after entering the small intestine. 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.