1, how to maintain health after meals
(1) Rinse your mouth after eating.
Zhang Zhongjing, an ancient medical scientist, pointed out: "Washing your teeth after meals makes your teeth unbeaten and tastes good." Gargling after meals can keep the mouth moist and clean, stimulate the taste buds on the tongue, enhance the taste function, effectively prevent and treat oral and dental diseases, protect the mouth and teeth, and help stimulate appetite and digestion and absorption.
(2) It is advisable to rub the abdomen after meals.
Sun Simiao, a great doctor in the Tang Dynasty, suggested doing some light exercise after meals. He said: "After eating, rub your face and abdomen with your hands and let the body fluids flow through. It's time to go after eating. " It is also required to "rub your stomach hundreds of times, knock your teeth 36 times, and fill your mouth with food." As long as we can do this, "eating is easy to benefit people, so that people can eat and drink, and end up dead." If you "lie down when you are full", you will "not become sick after eating, but become sick."
Massage the abdomen after meals can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and abdominal blood circulation, but also enhance gastrointestinal function. It can also be used as a benign stimulus, which is beneficial to the regulation of central nervous system function and plays a role in fitness and disease prevention.
(3) Walk slowly after meals
After supper walk a mile. Usually, people with little activity, especially those who work at their desks for a long time, and those who are obese or have hyperacidity, can walk for 20 minutes after meals, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, facilitate the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice and the digestion and absorption of food, and be beneficial to their health. "Pillow China" records: "Eating only a hundred steps is beneficial to people." It is also said that chewing slowly can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and contribute to the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juice and the digestion and absorption of food. However, don't walk quickly after dinner, don't do strenuous exercise, and don't sit or lie down immediately.
(4) Listening to music after meals
Appreciating soft, bright and beautiful music after meals is of great benefit to the human body. "Shou Shi Bao Yuan" said: "The spleen is good at music, and the sound will move." Taoism also has the saying that "the spleen must be sharpened when listening to music." Listening to soft and fresh music can cooperate with eating; And listening to music after dinner can cultivate your temperament, make your vitality return to the Sect, and forget your troubles.
2. Causes of discomfort after meals
1, after eating greasy food, people who feel pain in the right upper abdomen and radiate to the right shoulder and back are likely to be cholecystitis or bile duct diseases.
2. I feel hungry soon after eating, with a dull pain in my upper abdomen, spitting sour water and eating something. These symptoms will be improved. This feeling may be early gastritis or gastric ulcer.
3, often poor appetite, thin stools, more times, slightly greasy food will lead to diarrhea, which is due to gastrointestinal dysfunction, may suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.
4, suddenly feel loss of appetite, do not think about diet, anorexia greasy, physical weakness, leg pain and weakness, urine color such as strong tea, white eyes yellow, most likely suffering from jaundice hepatitis.
3. How to drink water after meals
1. How long is it better to drink water after meals?
If you want to drink water after a meal, you'd better wait for half an hour to 1 hour, so as to give gastrointestinal food a certain digestion time. If you are heartbroken, it is best to wait for 2 to 3 hours before drinking water. It is best to drink warm water after meals to avoid causing too much irritation to the gastrointestinal tract.
2. Disadvantages of drinking water immediately after meals
If you drink water immediately after a meal, and it is a lot of water, it is easy to make water enter the stomach to dilute gastric juice, and the food in the stomach will enter the small intestine before it is fully digested, which will affect the digestion of gastric juice and easily cause gastrointestinal diseases.
It doesn't matter much how much water you drink after a meal.
Generally speaking, we suggest that if you want to drink water after a meal, you'd better drink as little as possible, not more than 30 ml. If it is after meals 1 hour, you can drink water properly. In addition, if you want to avoid drinking water after meals, you can drink soup in moderation before or during meals.