Different dinner habits are intricately linked to your life.
Dinner and Dreams: An overly full dinner causes the bloated stomach and intestines to press on surrounding organs. The intense work of the digestive system, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas after a large meal sends signals to the brain, activating cells in corresponding areas. Once this "wave" of excitement spreads to other parts of the cerebral cortex, it can trigger various kinds of dreams. Frequent nightmares can lead to fatigue, and over time, may cause conditions like neurasthenia.
Dinner and Obesity: Eating too much for dinner increases the concentration of blood sugar, amino acids, and fatty acids, which in turn promotes a large secretion of insulin. Since people are generally less active at night, energy expenditure is low. The excess calories are then converted into fat under the action of insulin, gradually leading to weight gain. Therefore, dinner for middle-aged and older people should be light, and the calories consumed at dinner should not exceed 30% of the total daily calories, which is beneficial for preventing and controlling obesity.> Dinner is too great, the body becomes fat
Dinner and Diabetes: If middle-aged and older people consistently eat too much for dinner over the long term, it repeatedly stimulates excessive insulin secretion. This often overloads and exhausts the insulin B cells, eventually triggering diabetes.
Dinner and Coronary Heart Disease: Consuming excessive calories at dinner can lead to an increase in blood cholesterol,
and it can also stimulate the liver to produce low-density and very-low-density lipoproteins, which transport excess cholesterol to be deposited on the artery walls. This is another major cause of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
Dinner and Urinary Tract Stones: Stones are related to late dinners. It is determined that the peak time for human urination is generally 4-5 hours after a meal. If dinner is too late, the peak urination period occurs during sleep, causing urine to be retained in the bladder. Over time, this can lead to the formation of urinary tract stones. Therefore, dinner should not be too late; it is generally advisable to eat around 6 PM.
Dinner and Sudden Death: A dinner that is too rich and large, especially when combined with excessive alcohol consumption, can easily trigger acute pancreatitis, causing a person to go into shock during sleep. Even a strong and healthy person may die if not treated in time. If the ampulla of Vater is obstructed by a stone or an ascarid worm, leading to chronic biliary tract infection, it is even more likely to trigger acute pancreatitis and sudden death.
Dinner and Intestinal Cancer: A large portion of the day's side dishes are consumed at dinner, and with reduced activity, a portion of the protein cannot be digested, and a small part of the digested food cannot be absorbed. These substances are acted upon by anaerobic bacteria in the large intestine, producing harmful substances such as amines, ammonia, and indole. These toxic byproducts increase the burden on the liver and kidneys and provide a toxic stimulus to the brain. During sleep, intestinal peristalsis decreases, which relatively extends the time these substances stay in the intestinal cavity, promoting an increased incidence of colorectal cancer.
Dinner and Hypertension: Eating too much meat for dinner not only increases the burden on the digestive system but can also cause a sharp rise in blood pressure. Coupled with the fact that blood flow slows down significantly during sleep, a large amount of blood lipids is deposited on the vessel walls, leading to arteriosclerosis and hypertension. According to scientific experiments, people who often eat meat for dinner generally have blood lipid levels 2-3 times higher than those who often eat a vegetarian diet. For people with hypertension and obesity, the harm of eating meat for dinner is even greater.