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Do these 6 things after a meal, be careful! Otherwise, it will hurt the intestines, stomach and whole body!

What do you most want to do after eating and drinking? Lie down and get a good night's sleep? Or lie on the sofa and play with your phone for a while? But there are some things after a meal, although it is comfortable to do, it may be very harmful to the body! Now let's listen to the things we often do after meals, which ones nourish our health and which ones hurt our health.

Drink soup

Drinking a few sips of soup before eating is equivalent to adding some "lubricant" to this passage, so that food can be swallowed smoothly and prevent dry and hard food from irritating the mucous membrane of the digestive tract.

At the same time, a small amount of soup can also stimulate gastric acid secretion, which is beneficial to food digestion and absorption.

But it is not necessarily good to drink soup after a meal. At this time, a large amount of food needs to be digested urgently. If you drink a large amount of soup at one time, it will dilute the gastric juice and affect digestion.

If you are used to drinking after meals, and drink soup with high fat content, it will easily lead to excess energy and wait to gain weight.

Nap

Go to bed immediately after lunch. After waking up, you will often experience dizziness, weakness in the limbs, and discomfort in the whole body. This is because when a person eats, blood flows to the gastrointestinal tract to aid digestion, resulting in reduced blood flow to the brain and limbs.

Therefore, a more appropriate approach is: rest for half an hour after lunch, and then lie down and sleep for half an hour to 1 hour.

Eat fruit

Eat fruit immediately after a meal, the fruit eaten will be blocked in the stomach by the food eaten first, and will have a fermentation reaction with the food, or even spoil. Cause flatulence, indigestion, etc.

Therefore, it is best to eat fruit half an hour after a meal.

Some fruits that help digestion, such as apples, can be eaten before meals.

Brush teeth

Brushing your teeth after a meal is a good habit, but brushing your teeth immediately after a meal is not necessarily good for your teeth. Especially acidic foods or brushing your teeth immediately after drinking carbonated drinks can damage tooth enamel.

On the contrary, gargling immediately after meals can not only keep the mouth clean and moist, but also stimulate the taste buds on the tongue, enhance the taste function, and effectively prevent oral diseases.

Of course, if you want to thoroughly clean the food residue and tartar between the teeth in your mouth, it is better to brush your teeth, you can brush it 20 minutes after a meal.

Belly massage

Massaging the abdomen after a meal can not only promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and blood circulation in the abdominal cavity, but also help to enhance gastrointestinal function and promote digestion.

In addition, it can also be used as a benign stimulus, which is transmitted to the brain through nerves, and is beneficial to the regulation and exertion of central nervous system functions. Because modern research believes that there is indeed a preliminary central nervous system in the human gastrointestinal tract.

The specific method is: with the palms on the abdomen and the navel as the center, slowly and gently massage 20 to 30 circles clockwise and counterclockwise.

Bath

Many people like to take a bath after dinner, especially in summer, when they sweat during dinner, they can't wait to take a cold shower immediately. However, this is not very good for the body.

When eating, the whole body's attention is basically on eating, and the blood mainly circulates between the heart and the digestive tract.

Taking a bath after a meal can affect digestion in mild cases; in severe cases, it can lead to cardiovascular accidents! Sweating makes the sweat pores wide open, and the water temperature is low, the blood vessels constrict all of a sudden, which may lead to angina pectoris and myocardial infarction. Therefore, it is better to take a bath after a meal, generally half an hour after a meal.