Might as well sit down after lunch.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that qi and blood belong to yang in the morning and begin to produce yin at noon, that is, the heart meridian with less hand yin is the most prosperous, which is the time to nourish the heart. Sitting quietly for a while at noon is of great benefit to nourishing the heart, which can make you energetic in the afternoon or even at night, help promote blood circulation, and indirectly play the role of nourishing the heart, benefiting qi and nourishing tendons and activating collaterals.

Have a rest after dinner and before taking a walk.

It is also meaningful to take a walk after dinner. After a busy day, it is good for your health to take a walk and relax after a meal, but the habit of putting down chopsticks and leaving is not advisable. Because 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. Standing up and walking immediately after eating will undoubtedly add a lot of tension to the stomach out of thin air and destroy the normal work and rest.

A proper rest after a meal is good for your health.

Take a rest after meals 10- 15 minutes and then walk for health care. According to everyone's physical condition, the time for walking after meals can be selected from 10-30 minutes. Weak and elderly people can walk less to avoid feeling tired and increase the burden on the heart; People who are usually lack of exercise, overweight, indigestion and loss of appetite are suitable for walking more. In short, "sit after lunch and leave after dinner", long-term persistence will be beneficial to health.

There are many benefits of walking, and it is very important to develop good walking habits for people's physical and mental health. Walking after meals can increase the transportation of gastrointestinal tract, but attention should be paid to the time and method of walking to achieve good health care and distraction.

2 About the health classics of walking after meals

Walk a hundred paces after dinner. One hundred steps is a rough number, which means walking. There is no need to limit this quantity. Walking is the easiest way to get healthy. For those who are sickly, old or obese, they can't accept complicated skill exercises, but they are willing and willing to go for a walk.

Walking can enhance the tension and elasticity of lower limb ligaments, make limb joints flexible and elastic, prevent and delay the aging of legs and feet, and promote digestion and absorption. After pacing for more than ten minutes after a meal, food in the stomach can easily enter the intestine. Traditional Chinese medicine theory holds that "spleen governs transportation and transformation, and spleen governs limbs", that is to say, limb activities can promote the absorption and transformation of spleen and stomach, and the nutrients absorbed by spleen and stomach nourish limbs and ensure their functional activities. Walking can promote blood circulation, enhance heart function and increase blood vessel elasticity. It has been reported that for patients with acute myocardial infarction in convalescence, gradually increasing the walking distance and gradually speeding up the pace is beneficial to exercise. Walking can increase lung capacity. For people with tuberculosis and chronic respiratory diseases, it is more beneficial to take a walk in the wild and breathe fresh air.

Walking can cultivate sentiment, eliminate sadness and depression, and make people feel relaxed and happy. Walking is indeed an important exercise method to get rid of illness and prolong life. Any fitness exercise is inseparable from walking. Therefore, it is reasonable for the ancients to say "practice first".