Some living habits are always closely related to diseases, and unreasonable habits after meals may be harmful to your health.
1. Eat fruits immediately after meals
Phenomenon: many people like to eat some fruit after meals, thinking that it can supplement carbohydrates and trace elements needed by the human body in this way, and also solve greasiness. In fact, this is a wrong lifestyle.
Results: for a long time, abdominal distension, diarrhea or constipation will be caused.
Reason: after food enters the stomach, it needs to be digested for 1-2 hours. If you eat fruit immediately after dinner, it will be blocked by the food you ate previously, resulting in the failure of normal digestion of fruit.
Solution: fruit is best eaten between meals
Eating fruit after meals not only increases the burden of the stomach and intestines, but also has no problem for normal people. It should be noted that in addition to vitamins and other nutritional components, fruit also contains more dietary fiber, which has an impact on the digestion and absorption of some nutrients, such as micro elements. Therefore, it is best to eat fruit between meals. For those with elevated blood sugar, it is not recommended to eat fruit immediately after meals.
2. Drink strong tea after dinner
Phenomenon: Chinese people love to drink tea, and it seems that drinking tea with meals is a full service. However, drinking strong tea before and after eating is a very bad behavior!
Results: Dyspepsia and iron deficiency anemia.
Reason: drinking tea after meals will dilute gastric juice, affect food digestion, and affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients. For example, tea contains theophylline, which can interfere with the absorption of protein and trace elements, especially when trace elements such as calcium, zinc, iron and so on coexist with theophylline, the absorption rate decreases significantly. Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid. Drinking tea after dinner will combine the protein in the stomach that has not been digested with tannic acid to form indigestible sediment, affecting the absorption of protein. In addition, tea will hinder the absorption of iron, and even lead to iron deficiency anemia in a long time.
Solution: be able to eat and match.
Soup and water should be provided when eating. This helps dissolve the nutrients in the food and is conducive to digestion and absorption in the small intestine. If you do not supplement water before or after meals, a large amount of digestive juice after meals can cause fluid loss, which will inevitably cause thirst. Drinking water again at this time will dilute gastric juice and affect digestion.
When drinking tea after dinner, you should change strong tea to light tea. Don’t expect strong tea to reduce sleepiness, which will affect the absorption of nutrients.
In addition, drinking water on an empty stomach before meals means that you should drink a certain amount of water about an hour before breakfast, lunch and dinner. Because the digestion of food is completed by the digestive juice of digestive organs. The total amount of digestive juice secreted every day is about 8000 ml. After drinking water before meals, the water will only stay in the stomach for 2 or 3 minutes and then quickly enter the small intestine. After being absorbed into the blood, it can replenish the water needs of cells in the whole body about an hour later. Drinking water one hour before meals can ensure the secretion of sufficient digestive juice, help digestion and absorption, and do not affect the physiological water content in tissues and cells. At the same time, it is better to drink water on an empty stomach before breakfast. Because after a night’s sleep, the body loses more water and the blood is concentrated, drinking a glass of water after getting up can supplement water, reduce blood viscosity, and make blood vessels dilate and recover. Warm boiled water should be used for drinking water on an empty stomach, and light drinks such as juice, light tea and vegetable juice can also be used. Milk, soy milk, eggs, etc. should not be eaten on an empty stomach, but should be eaten at or after meals.
3. Smoking after meals
Phenomenon: “a cigarette after a meal is better than a living immortal” is a famous saying of smokers.
Results: damage liver, brain and heart blood vessels.
Reason: the research results show that gastrointestinal peristalsis increases after meals, blood circulation accelerates, and the ability to absorb smoke is the strongest. At this time, when you smoke a cigarette, the harmful substances in the cigarette are easier to enter the blood than usual, and the toxic amount is greater than the sum of 10 cigarettes you smoke at ordinary times.
Solution: it’s best to quit. If you can’t, take a look at the following methods.
1. The smoke contains radiation agents harmful to bronchi and lung tissues. Tea has anti radiation function. Smokers should drink tea while smoking to prevent radiation and benefit health.
2. Vitamin C has a great effect on eliminating nicotine in the human body, improving the resistance of cells and maintaining the elasticity of blood vessels. Foods rich in vitamin C include orange, orange, lemon, Rosa roxburghii, fresh jujube, tomato, pepper, Chinese cabbage, rape, cauliflower, bitter gourd, carrot, white radish, etc. Therefore, smokers should also love to eat fruits and vegetables.
3. Vitamin B2 can decompose benzopyrene harmful substances in tar, and cellulose can expel the decomposed substances from the body. Therefore, smokers should also eat more foods rich in vitamin B2, such as animal liver, eggs, milk, mushrooms, peanuts, lean meat, yeast, wheat, spinach, etc., as well as vegetables and fruits rich in cellulose such as leeks, carpentry vegetables and cabbage.
4. Iron and vitamin B12 can relieve the oxygen transmission barrier, so smokers can appropriately supplement foods rich in iron, such as animal liver, meat, egg yolk, kelp, beans, and foods rich in vitamin B12, such as milk, eggs, fish, clams and beer.
5. Smoking may also lead to cardiovascular diseases. Drinking persimmon leaf tea often and eating fish and roe can prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
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