We have been taught by our teachers since childhood to be cautious of illnesses entering through the mouth. It's not just unclean food, but poor eating habits can also lead to illnesses entering through the mouth. Enjoying delicious food is one of life's great pleasures, but if the timing and method of eating are wrong, it can pose significant health risks, such as the following 10 examples.
1. Skipping Breakfast
Harm: It can severely damage the stomach, making it difficult to work with energy, and it also tends to make you "look older".
Researchers at the University of Erlangen in Germany, after a long-term study of 7,000 men and women, found that 40% of them were in the habit of skipping breakfast, and their average lifespan was 2.5 years shorter than the other 60%. Another university, in a study of people aged 80 to 90, found that one of the common factors in their longevity was: eating a hearty breakfast every day.
Suggestion: Try to make breakfast food delicious and appetizing; have sufficient quantity and good quality; small in volume but high in calories; quick and easy to prepare; and pay attention to a balance of dry and wet, meat and vegetable foods.
2. Too Rich Dinner
Accusation: In the evening, the insulin content in the blood is at its peak for the day. Insulin can convert blood sugar into fat, which accumulates on the blood vessel walls and abdominal wall. Eating a very rich dinner over time can lead to obesity. At the same time, long, lavish dinners can disrupt the body's natural biological clock, making it easy to suffer from insomnia.
Suggestion:
First, eat dinner early. This can greatly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones.
Second, eat a light dinner. Dinner should be mainly vegetarian, with more fresh vegetables and as little excessive protein and fatty foods as possible.
Third, eat less for dinner. Generally, the calories provided by dinner should not exceed 30% of the total daily dietary calories.
3. Excessive Coffee Drinking
Harm:
1. Reduces fertility. Drinking one cup of coffee per person per day can reduce the chance of conception by 50%.
2. Increases the risk of heart disease. Coffee contains high concentrations of caffeine, which can alter heart function and increase cholesterol in the blood vessels.
3. Reduces work efficiency.
Suggestion: Drink less.
4. Excessive Alcohol Intake
Harm: Large or frequent drinking can cause alcohol poisoning in the liver, leading to inflammation and enlargement, and affecting the reproductive and urinary systems.
Suggestion: If you drink, you must first learn how to drink. From a health perspective, red wine is the best choice. Drinking after 2 p.m. is safer. Because the concentration of alcohol dehydrogenase—the enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach—is low in the morning, drinking the same amount of alcohol is more easily absorbed and causes greater damage to the liver, brain, and other organs than in the afternoon. In addition, it is not advisable to drink on an empty stomach, before bedtime, when you have a cold, or when you are emotionally agitated. A person weighing 60 kg should limit their daily alcohol intake to less than 60 grams.
From the perspective of alcohol metabolism, the best food to pair with alcohol is high-protein and vitamin-rich foods. Avoid eating cured foods like pickled fish, sausages, and cured meats with alcohol, because such smoked and cured foods contain large amounts of pigments and nitrosamines, which react with alcohol, not only damaging the liver but also harming the oral and esophageal mucosa, and even inducing cancer.
5. Smoking After Meals
Harm: Smoking a cigarette after a meal can be more toxic than smoking ten cigarettes at other times. Because after eating, gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation are strengthened, and the body's ability to absorb smoke enters an "optimal state," making it easier for toxic substances in the smoke to enter the body.
Suggestion: A complete ban on smoking.
6. Brewing Tea in a Thermos
Harm: Tea is best brewed with water at around 80°C. If tea is steeped in high-temperature water in a thermos for a long time, it's like simmering it with low heat, which will destroy the vitamins in the tea, cause a large amount of tea essential oil to evaporate, and lead to excessive leaching of tannic acid and theophylline.
Suggestion: Change your cup.
7. Constantly Eating Raw Food at Banquets
Harm: Can lead to various parasitic diseases.
Suggestion:
1. Drink fresh vegetable and fruit juice daily.
2. Eat fresh vegetables cold, with a moderate amount of vinegar and less salt.
3. Eat raw foods like fruits first, followed by cooked food, to avoid an increase in white blood cells.
8. Eating Fruits as a Main Meal
Harm: Can lead to a lack of substances like protein in the body, nutritional imbalance, and even trigger diseases.
Suggestion: First, go online to see what your body type is suitable for and what it is not.
9. Eating Too Quickly
Harm: Increases the burden on the digestive system and leads to obesity. Eating too quickly means food is not chewed sufficiently, which is not conducive to the initial digestion of food and salivary amylase in the mouth, increasing the burden on the digestive system; the chewing time is too short, the vagus nerve remains overly excited, and over time, it can easily lead to obesity due to excessive appetite.
10. Insufficient Water Intake
Harm: Leads to brain aging; induces cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; affects kidney metabolic function.
Suggestion: Drink more water and go to the bathroom frequently.