Although it is often said that you should drink soup before meals, do you know that drinking a lot of water before meals is also harmful?

Drinking soup before meals makes you slim and healthy. This sentence is more reasonable. Drinking a bowl of soup before meals helps digestion and absorption. Drinking soup before meals has many advantages, because drinking soup before meals can mobilize the activities of the digestive system and prepare for eating. And drinking soup before meals can make people slim, because the soup is in the stomach and reflected to the appetite center of the brain stem through the vagus nerve, which can excite the appetite center, reduce the appetite 1/3, and automatically reduce the eating speed. Therefore, drinking soup before meals is good for your health, but it is also liquid. You should not drink a lot of water before meals. Below, I will sort out some hazards of drinking water before meals for your reference only:

One: Drinking water before and after meals can cause indigestion.

Scientific research shows that it is best to drink water several times an hour before meals, and the amount of water to drink each time is less, ideally two or three hundred milliliters at a time. The water drunk on an empty stomach only stays in the stomach for a few minutes, and then quickly enters the small intestine, is absorbed into the blood, and can be replenished to the tissues and cells of the whole body in about an hour. However, if you drink water before meals, it will dilute the acidity of gastric juice and affect the secretion of digestive juice, which is not conducive to human digestion and absorption.

Two: the drinking water for eating is not suitable for drinking.

Many people feel very dry when eating, so drinking water while eating is harmful to human digestion and absorption. Because drinking water while eating will dilute gastric acid, so that the stomach can not be digested well, which is easy to lead to bloating.

Third, it will affect the sterilization effect of gastric juice.

The stomach has a certain amount of gastric juice before meals, mainly hydrochloric acid, pepsin and mucus, which are substances for digesting food and protecting gastric mucosa. Hydrochloric acid has bactericidal effect. Drinking plenty of water before meals will dilute hydrochloric acid, thus reducing its bactericidal ability and affecting appetite.