These habits, if done continuously will harm your health. Know the risks of 8 bad habits after a meal.
Usually, eating fruit and smoke after eating are common. Even in some people, eating fruits and smoking is something that is mandatory. And in one article the health channel 21 CN-Chinese Secret, mention a few points prohibition of activities after a meal.
1. Eat Fruit
Habit of eating fruits after meals turned out to be a bad habit. After the food into the stomach, the stomach takes 1-2 hours to digest. If after eating and then eat the fruit, the fruit will be hampered by the food that was eaten first, and consequently the fruit can not be digested normally. In along time, it will cause symptoms of abdominal bloating, diarrhea or constipation and other symptoms.
2. Drink strong tea
Drink tea after meals can dilute gastric juice and consequently affect the digestion of food. In addition, many tea leaves contain tannins (acid Tannates). If drinking tea after eating will make proteins that have not had time to digest the stomach together with Tannates acid and form sediments that are not easily digested, thus affecting protein absorption. Tea can also inhibit iron absorption, if circumstances so prolonged symptoms of anemia may occur due to lack of iron.
3. Smoke
Dangers of smoking after meals 10 times larger than a typical day. It is because the increased circulation of blood in the digestive tract after eating. As a result a large number of ingredients in cigarettes are not good for health is absorbed. So, it can damage the liver, brain and heart blood vessels and cause disease in these related aspects.
4. Bath
Bath after eating harmful to health because of the volume of blood flow on the surface of the body will increase, and the volume of blood flow in the intestinal tract and stomach will be reduced, thus making the stomach weaken bowel digestive function, and cause poor digestion.
5. Relax your belts
Relax your belt after a meal, even though it feels a bit uncomfortable, but it can lead to decrease the pressure in the abdomen, forcing stomach down. If the habit continues, it will actually suffer from the stomach down.
6. Walk
Walking after a meal is not recommended. Because the increasing volume of exercise that can affect the digestive tract on the absorption of nutrients. Especially the elderly, weakened heart function, blood vessel constriction, a lot of walking after a meal will decrease blood pressure symptoms and other symptoms.
7. Singing
After the meal we enlarged stomach contents, stomach wall becomes thinner, the volume of blood flow increases. In such conditions, singing can make midriff move down, load the abdominal cavity increases, if the light will cause poor digestion, in turn can cause disturbances in the stomach and other symptoms.
8. Driving
Prone to accidents when finished eating and then run the vehicle. It is because after eating the stomach and intestines need a large amount of blood in digesting food, resulting in major organ of the brain is deprived of blood for a while, and thus may cause operational errors.
So, if you have one or more bad habits after eating the above, should be avoided. To be healthier digestion, and can absorb nutrients from the food we eat.
