You might be keen on post-meal health care, but in fact, many health practices are not scientific when done after a meal. Shifting your health regimen from after to before meals yields better results.
1. Exercise. With an empty stomach before a meal, no new fatty acids have entered the fat cells, making it easier to "mobilize" them and burn them as calories through exercise.
Exercising one hour before a meal, such as brisk walking or jogging for 30-45 minutes, is much more effective than exercising after a meal.
2. Fruit. Fruit eaten after a meal may be held up in the stomach by the food consumed earlier, leading to fermentation or even spoilage, which can cause symptoms like bloating and constipation, adversely affecting digestion.
However, eating fruit before a meal can protect the body's immune system from the adverse stimulation of hot food, which is very beneficial for the immune system. Eating fruit after a meal does not offer this health benefit.
3. Soup. "Drinking soup before a meal is better than any prescription." Because the path from the mouth, esophagus, to the stomach and intestines is the inevitable route for food, drinking a few mouthfuls of soup beforehand is like adding a "lubricant," allowing food to pass smoothly and reducing the stimulation of hard food on the digestive tract's mucous membrane.