It is said that people are sleepy in spring, summer and autumn, and it is understandable that they can't get up in the morning. Why do many people yawn after lunch? Sleepiness after meals is often more obvious in summer. Is there any way to get rid of this sleepy boy? Life Times (WeChat search "LT0385" can be followed) interviews experts to find out the culprit of "after-meal sleepiness" and help you spend a sober afternoon. Interviewed experts Fan Zhihong, associate professor of College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, Wang Xiaoyun, member of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases Society of China Geriatric Prevention and Health Care Society, and Shi Ming, chief physician of Shanghai Medical Cooperation Center for Insomnia of Traditional Chinese Medicine, fell asleep after meals. On the one hand, blood sugar is the responsibility of diet, on the other hand, it may be caused by serious lack of exercise. Eating too much food will make blood sugar soar. What kind of food is the easiest to feel tired? Generally speaking, it is high-protein food, greasy food and food with too much refined white starch. Eat more: A study of 20 12 suggested that people who eat more will be more sleepy with the same food content. No matter what food you eat, eating less will make people feel better and less sleepy after meals. Cautious diet: Eating a lot of white and soft staple foods and sweets will make blood sugar quickly absorbed into the blood, and the insulin level will rise rapidly. The high insulin level may also be one of the reasons for drowsiness after meals. Lack of exercise will affect your ability to control blood sugar. Studies have confirmed that as long as you sit still for more than two hours, your body's blood circulation function will be seriously affected, and your blood sugar control function will also be seriously reduced. This phenomenon is more serious in people with soft muscles. Therefore, many people, after actively exercising, find that the drowsiness after meals disappears unconsciously. 3 strokes to alleviate "after-meal drowsiness" found the reason for being sleepy after a meal, and it was not difficult to solve it. There are four feasible measures to reduce the postprandial blood glucose response of food without causing protein overdose. Appropriately reduce the total amount of starch staple food. Do not eat sweets, and use coarse grains, beans and potatoes instead of white and soft staple foods. When eating staple food, you should supplement a lot of vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables and leguminous vegetables with high fiber content. If possible, it is also a good idea to divide the food in a meal into two parts, reduce the amount of food eaten in the main meal, and eat more between meals. Exercise for half an hour after lunch, such as walking and doing exercises, instead of sitting still. Minimize the consumption of energy by digestion and absorption, reduce the fluctuation of blood sugar, and ensure that you don't feel sleepy after meals. Taking a nap during lunch break is the most direct way to face drowsiness. After half an hour's exercise, you can lie flat and rest for about half an hour. If time is tight, 10 minutes is enough. If you can't sleep, don't force it. Closing your eyes is also a kind of rest. Even if we only lie down for 20 minutes and don't fall asleep at all, you will regain your strength as if you had slept. Old people are sleepy and alert to four diseases. Old people often take a nap and sometimes fall asleep when they sit down. Among them, brain aging, decreased oxygen tolerance, or slow metabolism and poor self-regulation are all incentives. However, it should be noted that the elderly are often sleepy, and the following diseases must be ruled out first. 1 heart disease, if the blood supply is insufficient, it will lead to hypoxia in the brain, which will lead to a decrease in the activity of the nervous system. The specific performance is that you can't wake up. Sleepiness symptoms often appear, indicating that there may be problems with the systolic function of the heart, and further examination is needed to determine the cause. Cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral infarction, brain atrophy and cerebral thrombosis can lead to cerebral ischemia, hypoxia and lethargy. 3. Other chronic diseases, such as chronic nephritis, diabetes and hypothyroidism. , will reduce the rate of metabolism, resulting in toxic metabolites in the body can not be smoothly discharged from the body, affecting the regulatory function of autonomic nerves, but also cause drowsiness, insomnia, hyperhidrosis and other symptoms. 4 Cognitive dysfunction, in particular, frequent sleepiness or falling asleep while watching TV is often an early manifestation of cognitive dysfunction, which must be highly valued. Don't be careless when you find that the old people at home are sleepy. It is best to observe whether they are accompanied by other symptoms, such as dizziness, headache, dry mouth and thirst, and inconvenient physical activity. If you are often sleepy and have obvious symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time for corresponding examination, find out the reason and treat as soon as possible. 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