Core Tip: Seven major unhealthy eating habits, such as skipping breakfast, having too lavish a dinner, eating too fast, not drinking enough water, and smoking after meals, are detrimental to longevity.
1. Skipping Breakfast
Harm: It severely damages the stomach, prevents you from working with high energy, and also makes you appear "older."
Suggestion: Breakfast should be as delicious and appetizing as possible; have sufficient quantity and good quality; be small in volume but high in calories; be quick and easy to prepare; and pay attention to a combination of dry and wet foods, as well as meat and vegetables. If you're really short on time, you can bring some cookies to tide you over.
2. Too Lavish a Dinner
Harm: In the evening, the insulin level in the blood is at its peak for the day. Insulin can convert blood sugar into fat, which accumulates on the walls of blood vessels and the abdomen. Eating too lavish a dinner over time can lead to obesity. At the same time, prolonged lavish dinners can disrupt the body's natural biological clock, making it easy to develop insomnia.
Suggestion:
First, eat dinner early. This can significantly reduce the incidence of urinary tract stones.
Second, eat a light dinner. Dinner should be primarily vegetarian, with more fresh vegetables and a reduction in excessive intake of protein and fatty foods.
Third, eat a small dinner. Generally, the calories provided by dinner should not exceed 30% of the total daily dietary calories.
3. Eating Too Fast
Harm: It increases the burden on the digestive system and leads to obesity. Eating too quickly means food is not chewed thoroughly, which is unfavorable for the preliminary digestion of food and salivary amylase in the mouth, thus increasing the burden on the digestive system. If chewing time is too short, the vagus nerve remains over-excited, and over time, this can easily lead to obesity due to increased appetite.
Suggestion: You should chew slowly and set aside more time for your meals.
4. Insufficient Water Intake
Harm: It can lead to brain aging; trigger cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases; and affect kidney metabolic function.
Suggestion: Drink more water and urinate more frequently.
5. Using Fruits and Vegetables as主食 (Staple Food)
Harm: It can lead to a lack of substances like protein in the body, causing nutritional imbalance and even triggering diseases.
Suggestion: When using fruits as a staple food, first consider whether your body type is suitable for it.
6. Smoking After Meals
Harm: Smoking a cigarette after a meal is more toxic than smoking ten cigarettes at other times. This is because after eating, gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation increase, and the body's ability to absorb smoke enters an "optimal state," making it easier for toxic substances in smoke to enter the body.
Suggestion: Quit smoking completely.
7. Brewing Tea in a Vacuum Flask
Harm: Tea is best brewed with water around 80°C. If tea is steeped in high-temperature water in a vacuum flask for a long time, it's like simmering it with low-heat water. This destroys vitamins in the tea, causes a large amount of tea essence to evaporate, and leads to the excessive leaching of tannic acid and theophylline.
Suggestion: Use a different cup to brew your tea.