if you are healthy, you should change your bad habits after meals.
I. drink strong tea after dinner
Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid. Drinking strong tea after dinner will combine the undigested protein just eaten with tannic acid to form a precipitate, affecting the absorption of protein; The substances in tea can also hinder the absorption of iron, and the bad habit of drinking strong tea after meals can easily lead to iron deficiency anemia; In addition, drinking tea immediately after dinner will dilute the digestive juice secreted by the stomach, which will affect the digestion of food by the stomach.
II. Smoking after meals
Some people think that a cigarette after dinner is better than a living fairy. In fact, this practice is extremely harmful to human body. Because the human intestines and stomach move very frequently after meals, the blood circulation also accelerates, and the digestive system starts a comprehensive movement.
If you smoke at this time, the absorption of smoke by lungs and whole body tissues will be greatly strengthened, resulting in a large amount of harmful components in smoke being absorbed, which has a strong stimulating effect on the respiratory and digestive tracts, and will undoubtedly bring much greater harm to human functions and tissues than normal smoking.
III. driving after dinner
After dinner, due to the need of digestion, most of the blood is concentrated in the stomach, and the brain is in a state of temporary ischemia. At this time, driving can easily lead to operational errors and accidents. Therefore, it is safer to drive an hour after dinner.
IV. drinking water after meals
Drinking water immediately after meals will dilute the gastric juice, so that the food in the stomach enters the small intestine before it can be digested, weakening the digestive ability of the gastric juice and easily causing gastrointestinal diseases. If you drink soft drinks after meals, it is even more inappropriate for your body. The carbon dioxide produced by soft drinks is easy to increase the internal pressure of the stomach, resulting in acute gastric dilatation.
v. take a bath after dinner
There is a folk saying that bathing when you are full and shaving when you are hungry, which is also an incorrect habit. After taking a bath after dinner, the blood flow on the body surface will increase, and the blood flow of the gastrointestinal tract will decrease accordingly, which will weaken the digestive function of the intestines and stomach and cause indigestion.
6. Relax your belt after dinner
Many people feel flustered after eating too much and often loosen the belt buckle. Although their stomachs are comfortable, this will cause a drop in intra-abdominal pressure and force their stomachs to sag. In the long run, you will suffer from true gastroptosis.
VII. Don’t move after dinner
Walking a hundred steps after a meal not only can’t live 99 years, but also affects the absorption of nutrients by the digestive tract due to the increase of exercise. Especially for the elderly, heart function decreases, blood vessels harden, and blood pressure drops often occur in walking after meals.
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