The health benefits of walking after meals usually include accelerating food digestion, staying healthy and avoiding high blood sugar.
1, accelerate food digestion: generally, walking after meals can promote human blood circulation, facilitate food digestion, enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis, avoid discomfort such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain, and prevent indigestion and constipation.
2, physical fitness: walking after meals can also consume body fat, avoid fat accumulation in the body, keep the weight within the normal range, and have the benefits of physical fitness.
3. Avoid hyperglycemia: If you have diabetes, your blood sugar usually fluctuates greatly after eating because of abnormal islet function. At this time, you can enhance your body's metabolic ability by walking to avoid discomfort caused by high blood sugar.
Walking after meals is a very good habit in clinic. Walking after meals can promote the digestion and absorption of food by the digestive system, avoid some intestinal diseases and promote intestinal peristalsis. Avoid some acid reflux, burping, heartburn and bloating. It is beneficial to some diseases, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease or patients with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
However, it is a good habit to avoid strenuous exercise and walking after meals in clinic, but if it is too strenuous, it will definitely have a negative impact on the digestive system. For example, running after meals may aggravate some gastrointestinal diseases, such as volvulus, which are dangerous diseases.
And excessive exercise may cause indigestion. So if you want to do strenuous exercise after a meal, you'd better do it for more than two hours. In addition, walking itself is a very good habit for the body, which can improve heart and lung function, increase exercise tolerance, and has many benefits for bones and muscles, so walking after meals is a good habit in clinic.