You can exercise half an hour after a meal, which is good for the body, but be careful, it can only be a light exercise such as walking, walking, square dancing, tai chi and so on. In addition, jogging, weight loss exercises, cycling and other moderate exercise can be carried out one hour to two hours after meals. Long-distance running, jumping rope, playing soccer, basketball and other high-intensity sports, it is appropriate to be two hours to three hours after meals.
Six things should not be done after meals:
1, immediately eat fruit. After the food into the stomach, need to go through 1 to 2 hours of digestion, if the meal immediately after eating fruit, will be previously eaten into the food block, resulting in fruit can not be properly digested. Therefore, it is best to eat fruit between meals, for those with elevated blood sugar, especially do not advocate eating fruit immediately after meals.
2, drink strong tea after meals. Drinking strong tea before and after meals is a very bad behavior, indigestion, iron deficiency anemia. Drinking tea after meals, should change the strong tea for light tea, do not expect strong tea can reduce sleepiness, which in turn will affect the absorption of nutrients.
3, relax your pants after meals. Eat up because the food eaten more than the volume of the stomach itself, so that things can not be digested in a short period of time, disrupting the normal movement of the stomach rules, often eat up will appear bloating, nausea, and even vomiting and other symptoms, may trigger gastritis , functional dyspepsia and other diseases.
4, driving after meals. Eat too full, the stomach is propped up, will be on top of the steering wheel, so that to turn, more difficult, if you need to make an emergency turn, but the steering wheel but how to turn over, the car can only be straight into the past. The digestion of food by the stomach and intestines after meals requires a large amount of blood, resulting in temporary ischemia of the brain, which can lead to operational errors and cause car accidents.
5, singing karaoke. singing after a full meal will make the diaphragm move down, the abdominal pressure increases, light cause indigestion, heavy cause gastrointestinal discomfort and other diseases.
6, lying down to sleep. After eating and drinking too much, when you feel bloated, lying down (flat, lying down, lying down) is not good. Slow walking can help the movement of the stomach and make the stomach empty as soon as possible. Slow walking after eating can promote peristalsis, so that the food in the stomach as soon as possible to empty, but not strenuous exercise, otherwise it will make the full stomach will stretch and aggravate the discomfort.
Reference People's Daily 6 things should not do after meals How long after meals can exercise