Seeing this, many people may be worried. If you lie down after eating, you will definitely gain weight. Not only will it not promote digestion, but it will only grow fatter and fatter, which will be more harmful to your health. Is that really the case? Let's reveal the answer today.
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Is it easy to get sick when lying down after a meal? The doctor tells you: not only will you not get fat, but you will also have this benefit.
The doctor replied: it is not easy to get sick when lying down after eating!
I don't know if you have ever had such an experience after eating, that is, you are weak and always sleepy after eating. Anyway, you feel a little uncomfortable. In fact, this is not a personal feeling, but also related to medicine.
Half an hour after a meal is the peak time for people to digest food. In order to digest food, part of the blood in the body will be concentrated in the stomach. At this time, the blood supply to the brain will be reduced, and people will naturally feel sleepy.
If the body is active at this time, a small amount of blood concentrated in the stomach and intestines will flow back urgently. Even if the body has a strong regulatory function, it will still have a certain impact on the digestive function, so that the food will take a little longer to digest.
If people can lie down and rest after meals, they can ensure the normal supply of blood, and their stomachs can concentrate on digesting the food they have just eaten.
So lying down after a meal is helpful for digestion and can better protect the stomach. And lying down after a meal won't make people fat. Related research shows that people spend 63 calories standing for an hour, 565,438+0 calories sitting and 365,438+0 calories lying down, so it is almost the same whether sitting, standing or lying down after meals.
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It's okay to lie down and rest after dinner, but it's unhealthy to sleep immediately.
Although lying down after a meal can be more conducive to gastrointestinal health, it should also be noted that lying down after a meal is no problem, but you can't sleep immediately.
When people are just full, the gastrointestinal function is relatively strong, but when the body is in a state of sleep, most tissues and organs of the body begin to enter a state of slow metabolism, and at this time, the peristalsis ability of the stomach will decrease, which will also affect some digestive functions.
This will lead to a part of protein that can't be digested and absorbed, and the stay time in the intestine will be prolonged. Under the action of anaerobic bacteria in the intestine, toxic substances such as amines, ammonia and indole will be produced, which will easily increase the burden on the liver and kidneys. So for the sake of health, you can't go to bed immediately after eating.
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Don't lie flat when you are full.
People say that eating seven or eight percent full is the best state for the stomach and body. If you eat too much at ordinary times, just lying down and resting will not bring benefits to your health.
This is because when there is too much food in the stomach, lying flat is easy to cause gastroesophageal reflux due to too much contact with gastric juice in the gastroesophageal cavity.
Therefore, if you are full, I suggest you stand or walk slowly to help digestion. Don't lie flat at once.
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So, how to lie is appropriate?
The correct opening posture of lying flat after a meal is-seven-point saturated upper body cushion.
So what exactly is seven points full? I just don't have a full stomach, but I feel full, so I can eat or not.
It's easy to understand lying on your upper body. You can use a recliner, or you can put a pillow under your head and back and lift your upper body to lie down.
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What other after-dinner taboos do we need to know?
Relax your belt after dinner.
Many people always feel a little flustered after eating, so they will untie their belts, giving people a relaxed feeling.
But this is very wrong, which is easy to lead to descent, and the pressure in abdominal cavity is easy to lead to gastroptosis.
Take a bath after dinner.
If people take a bath immediately after eating, the blood flow on the body surface will increase, so the blood flow in the gastrointestinal tract will decrease slightly, which will easily weaken people's digestive function and bring digestive tract problems.
Smoking after meals
Many people say that "a cigarette after a meal is better than a living fairy", but the harm of smoking after a meal is 10 times that of smoking at ordinary times.
This is because after eating, the blood circulation in the digestive tract will begin to increase, and at this time, it will absorb a large number of harmful components in cigarettes, causing damage to the brain, liver and heart.
If you want to smoke after dinner, you have to wait an hour before smoking.
Conclusion: If someone bothers you when you lie on your back after a meal and tells you that lying down will hurt your health, you should probably know how to answer.