1. Maintain proper posture during meals: Sit upright while eating to avoid putting pressure on the stomach, allowing food to enter the stomach quickly through the esophagus.
2. Keep intervals appropriate: Generally, it is advisable to have an interval of 4-6 hours between meals.
3. Avoid eating when extremely hungry: When you are very hungry, your appetite is particularly strong, which can lead to overeating and consequently obesity.
4. Do not overeat: If you eat your favorite foods first, the emotional satisfaction will make you feel full more quickly, thus avoiding overconsumption.
5. Chew slowly: Chewing slowly helps with digestion.
6. Avoid mental activity after meals: After eating, the stomach's digestion process requires concentrated blood flow. It is best to listen to light music and rest for a while. If you use your brain right after eating, blood flows to the head, leaving less blood for the gastrointestinal tract, which can easily affect digestion.
7. Do not overeat at dinner: Dinner should consist of simple and easily digestible foods, and excessive intake should be strictly controlled. This is necessary for controlling weight and losing weight.
8. Do not talk about unrelated topics during meals: Discussing complex or unpleasant topics can affect a person's appetite.
9. Pay attention to nutritional balance: The three daily meals should be well-balanced nutritionally, avoiding repetition of the same dishes.
10. Ensure a good breakfast: Without a good breakfast, the body cannot maintain its minimum blood sugar level, and you will not have the energy to study or work vigorously.
11. Prefer hot food for breakfast: In the morning, the autonomic and parasympathetic nerves transition to the sympathetic nerves. Hot food can raise body temperature, promote this transition, and increase appetite.
12. It is advisable to drink tea after meals: The main component of tea, tannic acid, has a bactericidal and disinfectant effect, and its plant saponins can clean food residues from the mouth.
13. Light exercise after meals is beneficial: This can increase cell vitality, reduce fat accumulation, and prevent obesity.
14. Avoid cold drinks at night: The body's water metabolism is less active at night. If you consume cold drinks after 7 p.m., the slow metabolism can cause water to accumulate in the body, lowering body temperature and making it harder to relieve fatigue.
15. Be moderate with dinner: A moderate dinner ensures you will have an appetite for breakfast the next day.
16. Do not eat before bedtime: Eating before bed prevents the stomach and intestines from resting fully, which can easily lead to stomach problems and affect sleep. However, drinking a warm glass of milk before bed is acceptable.
17. Do not eat sweets after greasy foods: After eating greasy foods, if you then eat sweets, the body's fat tissue will absorb excess glucose and starch, leading to obesity.
18. It is advisable to drink coffee or tea after greasy foods: Tea and coffee contain caffeine, which can stimulate the autonomic nervous system and promote fat metabolism.
19. Be creative with flavors: This can enhance appetite and help supplement the various nutrients the body needs.
20. Do not consume too much salt: Excessive salt intake can easily lead to high blood pressure.
21. Eat more dark-colored vegetables: Dark-colored vegetables are richer in nutrients like carotene, vitamin B2, magnesium, and iron compared to lighter-colored ones.
22. Children's diets should not be the same as adults': A child's diet should be nutritionally comprehensive, with special attention paid to nutrients that are beneficial for growth.
23. Do not be picky about food: Being picky or having food preferences can lead to nutritional imbalances.
24. Do not consume vegetable oil for long periods: Peanut oil and corn oil can easily be contaminated with the strong carcinogen aflatoxin, and the erucic acid in rapeseed oil is not healthy for people with high blood pressure or heart disease. The correct ratio of oil should be one part vegetable oil to 0.7 parts animal oil.
25. Do not be afraid of vegetable residues: Fiber promotes intestinal peristalsis, expels harmful substances, and prevents colon cancer. If vegetable residues are not too tough, you should swallow them.
26. You can listen to elegant music during meals: Elegant music can enhance the function of the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting digestion and absorption. However, it is not advisable to listen to jumpy, turbulent, or fast-paced music.
27. Frequently change your eating habits: Eating the same things in the same way every day will eventually lead to nutritional imbalances, so it is important to have variety.
28. Avoid eating while watching TV or reading: Watching TV or reading can prolong mealtime, leading to unintentional overeating. It also distracts you from properly tasting the food.
29. Be cheerful while eating: Anger, tension, sadness, and worry can weaken the digestive and absorption functions and also affect the sense of taste.
30. Eating together is better than eating alone: Individual meals can easily lead to nutritional imbalances. When multiple people share a meal, there is more variety, and eating a little of each helps achieve nutritional balance.
31. It is best to consume calcium with vinegar: Vinegar can ionize calcium, making it easier for the body to absorb. It is best to cook fish and bone foods with vinegar.
32. Eat fiber-rich food every day: When the body consumes excess fat and protein, it can combine with E. coli to become harmful putrefactive substances. Fiber can surround and excrete these substances.
33. Eat something before drinking alcohol: Drinking on an empty stomach places a heavy burden on the liver. If there is a lack of B vitamins and amino acids, fat can easily accumulate in the liver. Eating something and drinking water before alcohol consumption can also prevent drunkenness.
34. Those with a weak constitution can eat more meat: Because meat is rich in protein, it can strengthen the body.
35. Eat harder foods when possible: Eating hard foods can effectively exercise the gums and palate muscles and also promote the secretion of digestive juices.
36. Try to avoid loud noises: Intense noise can excite the nerves and weaken gastrointestinal function. Over time, this can lead to a loss of appetite and stomach ulcers.
37. Do not eat while standing: When you eat while standing, the sympathetic nervous system is active, which can suppress the normal function of the gastrointestinal tract. This is often a contributing factor to gastric ptosis, gastric dilation, and chronic gastritis.
38. Do not eat food that is too hot: Frequently eating very hot food can easily damage the esophagus and stomach.
39. Eat at your own pace: When eating with others, do not adjust your speed to theirs. Only by eating at your own pace can your digestive function work to its full potential.
40. Do not consume too many condiments: A survey in the United States shows that natural seasonings like pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and fennel have certain mutagenic and toxic properties. Consuming too much can lead to abnormal changes in human cells, and cause side effects such as dry mouth, sore throat, listlessness, insomnia, and can also induce conditions like high blood pressure and gastroenteritis.