Many people often like to eat a little fruit before meals, thinking it is a way to keep healthy. In fact, this habit is wrong. Fructose is the most abundant fruit. Although fructose does not need to be further digested by the stomach, it will not bring digestive burden to the stomach, but the tannic acid content in these fruits is high, which will reduce the stomach's ability to absorb protein. The correct order of eating should be to drink a bowl of soup or a little water before meals, and then eat vegetables and meat in turn. This diet will not cause too much digestive burden to the stomach, and at the same time, it can ensure the full intake of minerals and vitamins.
The purpose of drinking soup or water before eating staple food is to send a signal to the stomach in advance, so that the stomach can prepare for digesting food in advance. Therefore, drinking soup before meals is also to reserve liquid and supplement the consumption of body fluids when eating.
When you warm your stomach with hot soup, you can start eating vegetables, meat, rice and so on. At this time, you must remember that if you want to eat some fruit, you must eat it within half an hour or two after meals, because the staple food contains a lot of starch and protein, and it takes more than two hours or even longer to digest it completely. If you eat some desserts and fruits immediately after eating the staple food, it will not only increase the digestive burden of the stomach. Fruit will be blocked in the stomach because of excess food in the stomach and cannot be fully digested. The blockage formed by fruit ingredients is easy to rot and produce toxins at room temperature in the body, which will cause harm to our stomach.
Some people are used to drinking a little soup or boiled water after meals, which is also incorrect, because the food in the stomach needs a lot of stomach acid to digest after meals. If you drink some soup or boiled water at this time, it will reduce the concentration of gastric acid, thus reducing the digestive ability of the stomach.
Eat healthy ~ stand
Many people's normal eating habit is to sit and eat, because the stomach is in a relatively relaxed and comfortable state when sitting, and the stomach is easy to digest and absorb food when eating. Some people have developed the habit of squatting to eat. Studies have proved that squatting to eat is the most unhealthy, because when we get off work, our legs and abdomen will be oppressed by the body, which will easily lead to poor blood circulation. At the same time, squatting to eat is also very easy to cause insufficient blood supply to the stomach, which will affect the normal digestion of the stomach.
But for patients with stomach problems, it is best to take a standing meal when eating. Standing makes it easier to swallow and digest food. Eating by standing can alleviate the pain of patients with stomach discomfort such as heartburn and acid reflux, because heartburn and acid reflux are mostly caused by the reflux of gastric juice and food in the stomach to the esophagus.
Eating distracted watching TV = indigestion
Many adults, including children, like watching TV while eating. However, medical experts point out that this comfortable and casual way of eating will bring great hidden dangers to gastrointestinal health, and it is a kind of diet that is prone to stomach diseases.
Because the blood volume of the human body is fixed, it will be distributed to all parts of the body according to the needs of different parts, and once an organ of the body enters the working state, the heart will temporarily distribute blood according to the principle of more work, so as to maintain the normal operation of the whole body.
So why does watching TV while eating bring health risks to the stomach? In fact, when we watch TV, our brains are working. At this time, we need to allocate more blood to the brain to support its normal needs. If we choose to eat at this time, a lot of food in the stomach needs to be distributed to maintain normal digestion and absorption. At the same time, the total amount of blood in the human body is limited. At this time, the stomach and brain need a lot of blood at the same time, and the stomach and brain will have insufficient blood supply. If the stomach doesn't get enough blood,
Therefore, in daily life, experts will advise stomach patients to chew slowly when eating, and don't wolf down. Studies have proved that chewing slowly can promote the digestion of the stomach and reduce the probability of suffering from stomach diseases. At the same time, in the process of chewing slowly, food can fully contact in the mouth, which will stimulate food and oral mucosa and tongue, and then cause nerve reflex. Under the action of nerve reflex, the secretion of saliva will be accelerated, so that the stomach can get signals from the nervous system and accelerate the secretion of gastric juice. At the same time, in the process of chewing food carefully, the teeth will cut the food into very small particles, and saliva will be fully mixed into the food with the stirring of the tongue. Saliva contains a substance called amylase, which can decompose starch in food into glucose, which is an essential substance for human body. This is the first step of food digestion in the digestive system.
After food is chewed slowly, it will be swallowed into the stomach, and mucin and alkaline substances in saliva will also enter the stomach with food. Alkaline substances can relieve the acidity of gastric juice, lubricate the stomach wall, effectively reduce the burden on the stomach and prevent the occurrence of gastric diseases.