1. Maintain proper posture during meals: Sit upright while eating to avoid putting pressure on the stomach, allowing food to enter the stomach more quickly through the esophagus.
2. Avoid eating when extremely hungry: Hunger can lead to a strong appetite, causing you to eat too much at once, which can result in obesity.
3. Maintain appropriate intervals between meals: It is generally advisable to have a 4-6 hour interval between meals.
4. Chew slowly and thoroughly: Chewing slowly and thoroughly aids in digestion.
5. Don't overeat: If you eat your favorite foods first, the emotional satisfaction will make you feel full more quickly, thus avoiding overeating.
6. Avoid mental work after meals: After eating, the stomach needs concentrated blood for digestion. It is best to listen to light music and rest for a while. If you engage in mental work immediately after eating, blood flows to the head, leaving less blood for the gastrointestinal tract, which can easily affect digestion.
7. Pay attention to nutritional balance: The three daily meals should have a balanced nutritional mix and avoid repetition.
8. Dinner should not be excessive: Dinner should consist of simple, easily digestible foods, and excessive intake should be strictly controlled. This is essential for controlling weight and losing weight.
9. Don't talk about things unrelated to eating during meals: Discussing complex or depressing topics can affect a person's appetite.
10. Ensure you eat a good breakfast: Skipping breakfast can lead to insufficient maintenance of the body's minimum blood sugar levels, making it difficult to feel energetic for study and work.
11. Breakfast should be hot: Morning is the time when the autonomic and parasympathetic nerves transition to the sympathetic nervous system. Hot food can raise body temperature, promote this transition, and increase appetite.
12. Light exercise after meals is beneficial: This can increase cell vitality, reduce fat accumulation, and prevent obesity.
13. It's good to drink some tea after meals: The main component of tea, tannic acid, has a bactericidal and disinfectant effect, and its plant saponin can clean food residues from the mouth.
14. Dinner should be moderate: A moderate dinner ensures you have an appetite for breakfast the next day.
15. Avoid cold drinks at night: The body's water metabolism is less active at night. Eating cold drinks after 7 PM can lead to water retention in the body due to slow metabolism, lowering body temperature and making it difficult to relieve fatigue.
16. Don't eat before bedtime: Eating before bed prevents the gastrointestinal tract from resting fully, which can easily lead to stomach problems and affect sleep. However, drinking a glass of warm milk before bed is acceptable.
17. Drink coffee or tea after eating fatty foods: Tea and coffee contain caffeine, which can stimulate the autonomic nervous system and promote fat metabolism.
18. Avoid dessert after eating oily foods: After consuming oily foods, eating dessert can cause the body's fat tissues to absorb excess glucose and starch, leading to obesity.
19. Don't consume too much salt: Excessive salt intake can easily lead to high blood pressure.
20. Be creative with flavors: This can enhance appetite and help supplement the various nutrients the body needs.
21. Don't be picky about food: Being picky can lead to nutritional imbalances.
22. Eat more dark-colored vegetables: Dark-colored vegetables are richer in nutrients like carotene, vitamin B2, magnesium, and iron than lighter-colored ones.
23. A child's diet should not be the same as an adult's: A child's diet should be nutritionally complete, with special attention to nutrients that support growth.
24. Avoid long-term consumption of vegetable oil: Peanut oil and corn oil can easily be contaminated with the strong carcinogen aflatoxin, and the erucic acid in rapeseed oil is not beneficial for the health of people with high blood pressure or heart disease. The correct oil ratio should be one part vegetable oil to 0.7 parts animal oil.
25. Don't be afraid of vegetable residue: Fiber promotes intestinal peristalsis, expels harmful substances, and prevents colon cancer. If vegetable residue is not too tough, it should be swallowed.
26. Listen to elegant music during meals: Elegant music can enhance the function of the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting digestion and absorption. However, avoid music that is too jumpy, turbulent, or has a fast beat.
27. Change your eating habits frequently: Eating the same things in the same way every day can lead to nutritional imbalances over time, so it's important to have variety.
28. Avoid watching TV (or reading) while eating: Reading or watching TV can prolong mealtime, leading to overeating unconsciously. It also distracts you from properly tasting the food.
29. Eating together is better than eating alone: Individual portions can easily lead to nutritional imbalances. When multiple people share a variety of dishes, eating a little of each helps achieve nutritional balance.
30. Be cheerful while eating: Anger, tension, sadness, and worry can weaken the digestive and absorption functions and also affect the sense of taste.
31. It's 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 once a day: When the body consumes excess fat and protein, it can combine with E. coli to become harmful substances. Fiber can surround and excrete these.
33. Eat something before drinking alcohol: Drinking on an empty place a heavy burden on the liver. A deficiency in B vitamins and amino acids can cause the liver to easily accumulate fat. Eating something and drinking water before drinking can also prevent intoxication.
34. Try to eat harder foods: Eating hard foods can effectively exercise the gums and palate muscles and promote the secretion of digestive juices.
35. Those who are weak can eat more meat: Because meat is rich in protein, it can strengthen the body.
36. Try to avoid loud noises: Strong noise can excite the nerves and weaken gastrointestinal function. Over time, this can lead to loss of appetite and stomach ulcers.
37. Don't eat scalding hot food: Frequently eating very hot food can easily damage the esophagus and stomach.
38. Don't eat while standing: Eating while standing activates the sympathetic nervous system, which can suppress normal gastrointestinal function. This is often a cause of gastroptosis, gastric dilation, and chronic gastritis.
39. Eat at your own pace: When eating with others, don't adjust your speed to theirs. Only by eating at your own pace can your digestive function work optimally.
40. Don't consume too many seasonings: Natural seasonings like pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and fennel have certain mutagenic and toxic properties. Excessive consumption can lead to abnormal changes in human cells, and side effects such as dry mouth, sore throat, listlessness, and insomnia. It can also induce diseases like high blood pressure and gastroenteritis.