It takes us about four hours to digest food in the gastrointestinal tract. After eating food, it can be decomposed and absorbed in four hours, which makes us feel hungry. It's not right to skip breakfast or dinner. Doing so for a long time will do harm to our health in all aspects. Let's find out.
First, it will reduce our work efficiency and sleep quality.
After a day's work, the energy of food decomposition in the body has been consumed almost, and the blood sugar level in the body will be at a low level around 6 pm. Many friends get off work late and often can't get off work at six o'clock. Overtime is a common practice for many friends.
If you don't eat some food to replenish energy after six o'clock in the afternoon, you will put your body in a state of excessive consumption. People often have low work efficiency and inattention in the state of hypoglycemia and hunger, which easily leads to work mistakes.
Most friends go to bed after ten o'clock. If we sleep on an empty stomach and leave our bodies hungry, the gastrointestinal tract will exercise excessively, and some friends will have bowel sounds, which is what we call hungry. The feeling of hunger will stimulate our brain nerves and make our nerves in an excited state, which will greatly affect our sleep. When singing in the stomach, the neurons in the head are charged, and sleepiness may be dispelled.
So skipping dinner will do harm to our sleep quality.
Second, it will do harm to our stomachs.
Eating food regularly is a kind of protection for the stomach. After food is eaten in the stomach, it can be combined with gastric juice, thus reducing the acidity in the stomach. The stomach has been secreting gastric juice, but the amount of secretion is different in different time periods and different States. Because it takes a long time from night to the next morning, there will be more gastric juice secretion.
If you don't eat at night, the gastric juice can't be neutralized, and many friends will have stomach acid. Hyperacidity in the stomach can also affect the functional state of the stomach. Studies have shown that skipping dinner will also increase the chance of gastric cancer.
Third, it will reduce our immunity.
Substances that enhance our immunity are largely synthesized by absorbing nutrients in food. If we can't supplement enough food, we can't provide a source for these substances. Immunoglobulin is the most common immune substance, and the synthesis of protein requires sufficient protein nutrition. Other trace elements, such as zinc, are also obtained from food. The period from night to the next morning is an important time for immune repair. If you can't give enough nutrition at this time, your immunity will decline.
Fourth, it will make us more likely to get fat.
If a friend thinks that he can lose weight without eating dinner, it is all wet. Skipping dinner will increase the risk of weight gain. If you don't eat dinner for a short time, you will lose weight, but if you don't eat dinner for a long time, you will find that you are fat again, and the increase rate may exceed the previous speed.
There is a certain order between the supply and consumption of normal energy. Under normal circumstances, we will use carbohydrates in the body first. When carbohydrates are insufficient, our body will use some glycogen stored in the liver and muscles. After all these substances are consumed, the body begins to decompose protein and fatty substances.
After glycogen and fat in muscle are consumed, the basic metabolic capacity of human body will be greatly reduced. If you don't eat dinner for a long time, your body's energy will often be lost, thus changing the order of energy supply in your body. The body's ability to store fat will increase, while its ability to store other glycogen will decrease. This manifestation of enhanced ability to form fat is called obese constitution by some people.
Skipping dinner occasionally may make us thinner, but skipping dinner often will have a great adverse effect on our health. Lose weight in the right way. I hope every friend can have a good meal.