1. Can you lose weight by drinking water after meals?
It is normal to drink water immediately after a meal, and you can't lose weight, but it is ok to drink water for a while after a meal. Because it is the stage when gastrointestinal peristalsis begins to digest and decompose the food eaten, drinking water at this time can more effectively promote the digestion of food by the stomach and reduce the burden on the stomach, which is not conducive to the accumulation of fat, thus playing a good role in losing weight, and is also conducive to good health.
Don't drink water immediately after meals.
Drinking water after meals is an unhealthy way to eat, let alone lose weight. In the long run, it will also threaten human health, fail to fully absorb the nutrition of food, unbalance human metabolism and cause chronic diseases such as malnutrition. The best way to lose weight is to combine exercise with diet control. Although drinking water can promote the metabolism of the body and play a certain role in the process of losing weight, if you want to drink water, don't drink water at the wrong time. Don't drink water right after dinner. It is recommended to drink water at least 20 minutes after meals.
3. The harm of drinking water immediately after meals
1, heartburn
Drinking a lot of water frequently after meals can cause heartburn, because there is too much water in the stomach, and the food will easily flow back to the esophagus after being diluted, which will stimulate the esophageal mucosa and lead to heartburn. Patients with heartburn and peptic ulcer should pay more attention.
2. Loss of nutrition
Drinking plenty of water after meals will not promote nutrient absorption. On the contrary, because water can metabolize toxins and other substances, excessive water intake will cause a large number of nutrients and trace elements to be excreted with water, which will cause serious nutrient loss in the long run.
3, indigestion
Drinking water after meals will make food swell, and drinking too much water will delay digestion time. When diluting gastric juice and digestive juice, food will be diluted, and its nutrients can not be absorbed well, which will increase the burden on the stomach and kidneys and easily cause indigestion, hiccups and other uncomfortable reactions.
4. Bacterial reproduction
Gastric juice contains a lot of gastric acid, which can kill bacteria and viruses in food. Drinking water after meals will dilute gastric acid and reduce the bactericidal effect of gastric juice, while bacterial reproduction is prone to gastroenteritis; So don't drink a lot of water immediately after meals.
If you drink plenty of water frequently after meals to lose weight, it will first cause heartburn discomfort, especially for people with heartburn symptoms. In addition, drinking plenty of water can metabolize some toxins in the body, but a large number of nutrients and trace elements will also be taken out of the body with water, which is not worth the candle.
4. How to drink water helps to lose weight?
1, after brushing your teeth in the morning, drinking a cup of warm water before eating breakfast can accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote the discharge of waste and toxins, and clear the intestines and lose weight.
2. Drinking a cup of warm water one hour after a meal can accelerate the body's metabolism, help the body burn excess fat, and reduce weight and lipid.
3, drink water to drink warm water, so as not to cause irritation to the gastrointestinal tract and throat, water close to human body temperature can be more conducive to detoxification and laxative.
5. What are the benefits of drinking more water?
1, treating constipation
Constipation bothers many people. The causes of constipation can be simply summarized as two points. One is that there is no water in the stool in the body, and the other is that organs such as intestines have no excretory power. To solve the first reason, we need to find out the reason, drink more water every day, and the temporary prescription to solve the second reason can drink more water, pay attention to swallowing fast, so that the water we drink can reach the colon as soon as possible, stimulate intestinal peristalsis and promote defecation.
If you want to relieve constipation by drinking water, you must remember to drink water with a big mouth, not with a small mouth, otherwise the water flow is too slow, the water is easily absorbed in the stomach, and finally the urine is excreted.
Drinking water for half an hour after a meal can reduce fat.
The metabolism of the body needs enough water to proceed smoothly. Many chemical reactions in the body are carried out with water as the medium. Both the digestive function and endocrine function of the body need water, and the toxic substances in the metabolites also depend on water. Therefore, drinking plenty of water can ensure adequate water in the body and avoid the disorder of gastrointestinal function. Drinking a glass of water half an hour after a meal can strengthen the digestive function of the body and help to keep fit.
3. Drink plenty of water to relieve irritability.
Human hormones can be divided into two types, one produces pleasure and the other produces pain. Endorphins produced by the brain are called "happiness hormones" and adrenaline is called "pain hormones". When a person feels pain and irritability, adrenaline will soar. Adrenaline, like other toxins produced by body metabolism, can be excreted by drinking more water.
4. A glass of water before going to bed is helpful to sleep.
It is suggested that you can drink a small cup of warm water before going to bed, which is more conducive to the improvement of sleep quality. Thirst often wakes people from a deep sleep. Lack of water will make people fidgety, unable to sleep, unable to enter a deep sleep, and will continue to dream or have nightmares when sleeping, which will affect the quality of sleep.
In addition, a glass of water before going to bed can prevent the sudden attack of angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and other diseases for people with bad heart. Diseases such as myocardial infarction are caused by high blood viscosity. When people are sleeping, sweating and water loss in the body will lead to the reduction of water in the blood and the blood will become sticky.
5, a glass of water in the morning to clean the stomach.
After a night of digestion, the food in the gastrointestinal tract has been emptied. Drinking a cup of warm water in the morning can clean the stomach, dilute the stomach acid, reduce the stimulation to the stomach, keep the stomach in a good state and prepare for breakfast. In addition, it can replenish water in the body and dilute the blood that has gradually thickened.