Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty who lived for 65,438+0,065,438+0 years, pointed out in his medical book "Thousand Wings of Women": "On weekdays, after eating a snack meal, go out for fifty or sixty steps. After a Chinese meal, take one or two hundred steps. Take your time, don't be short of breath ... and you will live forever." Therefore, after 1000 years, "taking a hundred steps after meals" has become a widely accepted concept of health preservation, and many people have developed the habit of taking a walk after meals. However, with the popularization of medical knowledge, people began to doubt this sentence, and even the opposite statement of "live ninety-nine, don't leave after meals" appeared. Is it because the ancients had limited knowledge and said something wrong? If this concept is wrong, why has it been regarded as a classic motto for health preservation for thousands of years? If this idea is correct, why has it been fiercely attacked in modern times?

One is to ask for "going" and the other is not to ask for "going". It seems that "going" or "not going" has become a big question of life and death, which has aroused people's curiosity and is eager to make these two opposing views clear.

In fact, to find out whether to go or not to go after a meal, people can get the corresponding reference value by subdividing it into several related small questions, and then decide whether to go or not according to their own personal situation.

Question 1: What kind of meal does "after dinner" mean?

Sun Simiao advocated a "daily snack" for walking, no matter what kind of meal, but the pace of life of modern people is many times faster than that of the ancients. After breakfast, they will go to work in a hurry. After lunch, they will take part in necessary activities. Only after supper can they stop sometimes. Therefore, this "after dinner" is understood today and naturally refers to after dinner. After a busy day, taking a walk after dinner is good for your health. If you can't afford to lie down after a meal, it will cause slow digestion and imbalance over time, leading to the accumulation of debris and waste gas in the body, and you will get sick after accumulation. Taking a walk after a meal to relax the nervous mood does have the fitness effect of strengthening the body and prolonging life. Question 2: Who should I "go" after dinner? Both Chinese medicine and western medicine believe that walking after meals is the secret of good health. Taking a hundred steps after a meal is very suitable for people who usually have little activity, especially those who work at their desks for a long time, and also for people who are fat or have too much stomach acid. If they can persist in walking in fresh air after meals, they can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help the digestion process, but also reduce the time they spend "planting" on the sofa. Therefore, for them, it is really a good habit to take a hundred steps after meals, just like Cao Tingdong, a famous health preserving family in Qing Dynasty, said, "I want to invigorate my body and help digestion".

Question 3: Who shouldn't "go" after a meal?

In the second phase of the corresponding question, some people are "inseparable" after meals. For example, people with poor health, people with gastroptosis or people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Not only should these people not take a walk after meals, but they should also reduce their general walks. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases especially avoid exercise after meals, because the gastrointestinal activity increases after meals, the blood flow in the gastrointestinal department increases, and the blood flow in the heart and brain organs decreases accordingly. If you exercise as soon as you leave work, you may induce angina pectoris or even myocardial infarction, while patients with hypertension will aggravate dizziness, dizziness, headache and other symptoms, or cause gastrointestinal diseases. If you can't walk after a meal, you can choose to lie on your back 10 minutes after a meal, or sit still properly, close your eyes for 30 minutes, and then do some light activities.

Question 4: When should I "go" after dinner?

Some people are used to putting down chopsticks and starting. In fact, this habit is not desirable. Because the stomach is full after a meal, it is necessary to ensure that there is enough blood supply in the gastrointestinal tract to preliminarily digest food. The food you eat needs to stay in your stomach for a period of time, mix with the gastric juice that helps digestion and absorption, and then slowly discharge from your stomach and enter the duodenum. If you go out for a walk immediately after a meal, the blood will spread to all parts of the body, making the blood supply in the stomach insufficient, thus affecting the digestion of food; At the same time, walking immediately after meals will accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis and push undigested food into the small intestine prematurely, which not only increases the burden on the small intestine, but also is not conducive to the absorption of nutrients in food. Experts suggest that you should rest in place 10- 15 minutes after meals, and then start walking, so as to play a role in health care.

Question 5: How to "walk" after a meal?

Although the knowledge of walking is not profound, if you don't pay attention, you may deviate from the original intention of fitness. Because people's stomach contents increase after eating, the burden is too heavy. At this time, if you walk too fast, go uphill or downhill, or do some activities outside the walking range, it will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, which is very unfavorable to health. In addition, the digestion and absorption process of gastrointestinal tract needs sufficient blood supply. Excessive exercise will increase the blood circulation of muscle tissue, and secondly, the blood will be diverted to other parts of the body, affecting the body's absorption of nutrients in food.

You can't rush when you are full. Walking after dinner is different from physical exercise. No strength is needed. The correct way to walk should be "walking slowly", walking casually and walking absently. If you have to go up and down stairs or run across the road within a hundred steps, you might as well walk in the same place first. It's best to wait for an hour and a half after work before more intense activities.

Question 6: How far should I "walk" after dinner?

The "hundred steps" mentioned by predecessors does not mean that we must take a hundred steps accurately. Weak people and the elderly can walk less to avoid fatigue and increase the burden on the heart. Those who are usually lack of exercise, overweight, indigestion and loss of appetite can only get better fitness results by walking more. Modern medical scientists usually suggest taking time as a measure of moderate walking, that is, taking a walk after meals 10-30 minutes according to one's physical condition.

Walking is not only the basic activity form of human body, but also an effective way to exercise and prolong life. But we must walk scientifically, which can bring people a relaxed and happy mood and proper gastrointestinal health care. Therefore, it should also become a good habit of healthy living.

Tips on healthy habits:

1. Walking is one of the effective means to enhance heart function;

2. Walking can lose weight;

3. Walking helps to normalize carbohydrate metabolism;

4. Delay and prevent osteoporosis.